# MA-RU (Maruʾ)

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

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Maruʾ
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [MA-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-RU/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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