Personal name · Semitic
KA-SA-RU
Qaṣṣāru 'Fuller' (personal name); compare Linear B ka-sa-ro; rival Kaṣṣāru 'donkey driver'
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- Qaṣṣāru
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- Personal name Candidate
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- Semitic Candidate
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- Haghia Triada
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- KA-SA-RU
Commentary
Qaṣṣāru: Ebla ga-za-ru₁₂, /qaṣṣāru/ ‘fuller’ or /kaṣṣāru/ ‘donkey driver’ (Pagan 1998, rows 1979–1980); Linear B ka-sa-ro (KN C(2) 912.8); Ugarit DUMU ka-ša₂-ri.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KA-SA-RU.
- Eblaiteqaṣṣāruga-za-ru₁₂, a personal name, read /qaṣṣāru/ ‘fuller’ or /kaṣṣāru/ ‘donkey driver’ (Pagan 1998, rows 1979–1980)
- Arabicqaṣṣārqaṣṣār ‘one who beats and washes and whitens clothes’ (Lane 2535); qaṣṣara ‘he beat, washed, and whitened the cloth’ (Lane 2534)
- Syriacqāṣrāqāṣrā ‘fuller’ (HALOT 819, s.v. ʿên rōgēl ‘spring of the fuller’)
- Linear Bka-sa-ro, a man at Knossos, KN C(2) 912, Dv 1450