Personal name · Semitic
SA-MA-RO
Samarō, personal name, 'guard'
- Reading
- Samarō
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- SA-MA-RO
Commentary
HT88 KI-RO roster. √š-m-r ‘guard’, the Amorite name element samar (Huffmon 1965, 251). Rival: Egyptian smr ‘courtier’.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry SA-MA-RO.
- Hebrewšmršmr ‘to guard’ (HALOT 1581)
- Amoritesamar, a name element ‘guard, watch’ (Huffmon 1965, 251); bare ŚAMAR-A, SA-MA-RA (Gelb 1980, no. 5437); ʾAbī-Śamar (no. 134)
- Egyptiansmrsmr ‘courtier’ (ORAEC)