adāru

Akkadian verb

Last edited: 2023-07-03
Primary meaning to become obscured
Variants
adāru
Edited by
to be worried, disturbed, restless verb
to become obscured, dark

mul2GU.LA a-dir 30 ina EN.NUN.U4.ZAL.LA AN.GE6 GAR-ma

‘The Great One is dark: the Moon makes an eclipse in the morning watch.’

— AO 6455 (TCL VI 11 = TU 11) obv. 2

Genre: collection of astrological and astronomical rules
Provenance: Uruk
Date: ca. 200 BCE

Brack-Bernsen, Lis, and Hunger, Hermann. 2002. TU 11. A Collection of Rules for the Prediction of Lunar Phases and of Month Lengths. SCIAMVS 3: 3–90. 7

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). adāru (Lemma #275). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/275/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). adāru (Lemma #275). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/275/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). adāru (Lemma #275). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/275/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) adāru (Lemma #275), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/275/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac275,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {adāru ({Lemma} #275)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/275/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/275/},
}