Personal name · Semitic

DU-MA-I-NA

He of the Spring (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + maʿīn 'spring, flowing water'); rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring'

Reading: ḏū-maʿīna
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: DU-MA-I-NA

Commentary

HT 123+124b .5 DU-MA-I-NA ⅜, I underdotted (GORILA I 213). ḏū-maʿīna: DU ḏū ‘he of’, as DU-ZU-WA, + maʿīn ‘spring’, Hebrew maʿyān, Syriac meʿīnā (HALOT 612); ḏāti … maʿīn (Q 23:50). Rival: a product, ‘(the drink) of the spring’. See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry DU-MA-I-NA.

Hebrewmaʿyānmaʿyān ‘spring, source; place of origin, headwaters’; maʿyan mayim (Lev 11:36) (HALOT 612)
Syriacmeʿīnā (HALOT 612)
Arabicmaʿīnmaʿīn ‘spring’ (HALOT 612); rabwatin ḏāti qarārin wa-maʿīnin ‘a high ground having level areas and flowing water’ (Q 23:50); kaʾsin min maʿīn ‘a cup from a flowing spring’ (Q 37:45, 56:18)