šadûm

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈduːm/

Cognate with Biblical Hebrew שָׂדֶה (śɔḏɛ, “field”) and Ugaritic 𐎌𐎄 (šd /⁠šadû⁠/, “field”).

šadûm m (base šadu, construct state šad or šadi, plural šadû or šadânu or šadâtum f) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. mountain, mountain region
2. open country, steppeland, desert
3. a mythological place corresponding to Sumerian 𒆳 (kur, “underworld”).

• šadû (non-mimated)
• šaddû
• šadu'um, šadwim (genitive) (Old Akkadian, Old Assyrian, Old Babylonian)

• “šadû A”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, volume 17, Š, part 1, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1989
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “šadû(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
• Huehnergard, John (2011) A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies; 45), 3rd edition, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns

𒅎𒆳𒊏 (šadûm)

From 𒆳 (šadûm, “mountain region; steppeland”) +‎ 𒄿 (-ī, nisba suffix).

šadûm m (from Old Akkadian on)

1. east
2. easterner
3. east wind

• šadû (non-mimated)
• šaddû
• šadīum (Old Akkadian)

• (compass points) 𒅎𒎌 (šārū);

	𒅎𒋛𒁲 (ištānum)
𒅎𒈥𒌅 (amurrum)		𒅎𒆳𒊏 (šadûm)
	𒅎𒍇𒇻 (šūtum)

• “šadû B”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “šadû II”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag