pi-ir-du
pirdu

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-07-03
Primary meaning ?
Literal translation ?
Variants
pi-ir-du pirdu
Edited by
? astronomical event

An eclipse-related astronomical phenomenon. Rarely attested. Maybe derived from the verb parādu "to be fearful, disturbed, restless" (D-stem "to frighten, disturb"; "to become confused").

pi-ir-du ša2 AN.MI

‘The pirdu of an eclipse.’

— AO 6455 (TCL VI 11 = TU 11) obv. 13

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. 8

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). pi-ir-du (Lemma #583). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/583/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). pi-ir-du (Lemma #583). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/583/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). pi-ir-du (Lemma #583). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/583/
Harvard
Schreiber, M. (2023) pi-ir-du (Lemma #583), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/583/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac583,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pi-ir-du ({Lemma} #583)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/583/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/583/},
}