Personal name · Semitic

DU-PA₃-NA

personal name, 'bear' with -ān

Reading
Dubbān
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
DU-PA₃-NA

Commentary

An entry with one unit on the HT 115b palimpsest. Dubbān ‘bear’ with -ān, as Amorite DABIN-UM. Rival: dibbān ‘fly’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry DU-PA₃-NA.

  • EblaiteAZ = dab₆-bù, da-bù ‘bear’ (GlOS 1, 139)
  • Akkadiandabû, dabbu ‘bear’, in Old Akkadian personal names before the literary texts (CAD D 17; AHw 148)
  • Hebrewdōbdōb ‘bear’ (1 Sam 17:34), pl. dubbîm (2 Kgs 2:24)
  • Arabicdubbdubb ‘bear’ (Lane 841)
Linear A Lexicon