šaṭārum

Unknown. The noun is derived from the infinitive of the verb.

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈtˤaː.rum/

šaṭārum m (Standard Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Late Babylonian)

1. copy, exemplar, text, inscription, writing, written document

• šaṭṭāru (Neo-Assyrian)
• šaṭārānu (Neo-Babylonian, plural)

• → Aramaic: שְׁטָרָא‎ (šṭārā), ܫܛܪܐ‎ (šṭārā)
  • → Arabic: سَطْر‎ (saṭr)
  • → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܫܛܵܪܵܐ‎ (išṭārā)
• Mishnaic Hebrew: שְׁטָר‎ (šəṭɔ́r)

šaṭārum (G, a-u, durative išaṭṭar, perfect ištaṭar, preterite išṭur, imperative šuṭur) (from Old Akkadian on)

1.  to write down, inscribe, copy
2. to issue a legal document
3. to list, register, record
4. to assign

• šaṭāru (non-mimated)

• → Classical Syriac: ܣܛܰܪ‎ (sṭar, “to carve, write down”)
  • → Old South Arabian: 𐩪𐩷𐩧‎ (s¹ṭr, “to write”)
    • → Arabic: سَطَرَ‎ (saṭara)

• “šaṭāru”, 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), “šaṭāru(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag