Personal name · Semitic

MA-RU

Fattened (personal name), the bare stem of the Amorite MARUʾ- names; rival Maru 'Wool'

Reading
Maruʾ
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
MA-RU

Commentary

HT 117a, one of ten men counted 1 each under MA-KA-RI-TE (KU-RO 10), between KU-RA-MU and KU-PA₃-NU. Amorite names open with MA-RU on MRʾ (Gelb 1980, nos. 4542, 4543, 4545); *mrʾ ‘fat cattle’, Ugaritic mrủ ‘fatling’ (DULAT 563). Rival: Maru ‘Wool’, the wool word of logogram MA+RU. See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry MA-RU.

  • AmoriteMARUʾ+JAT-UM, MARUʾ+LI+ʾEL, MAʾR-U+ZAʾT-U-HU, all written MA-RU- (Gelb 1980, nos. 4542, 4543, 4545); Tuttul dādu-marʾum ‘my beloved is fat’ (Buck 2018, 327)
  • Ugariticmrủmrủ ‘fattened; fatling’ (DULAT 563); syll. ma-ru-u ‘fattened’ (GlOS 2, 46)
  • Hebrewmərîʾmərîʾ ‘fatted steer’ (HALOT 635)
  • Linear Arival MA+RU (A559), the wool logogram, and MA+RU-ME (HT 24a)
Linear A Lexicon