di-ru
dīru

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2024-06-17
Primary meaning intercalary (month)
Literal translation intercalary (month)
Variants
di-ri dīru
di-ir-ri dīru
di-ir dīru
Edited by
intercalary (month) time interval

MU.AN.NA ki-in-ma di-ri-ša šu-ul-lim

‘Establish the (length of the) year and complete its intercalary (months).’

— K 2848 71

Genre: handbook
Provenance: Nineveh
Date: Neo-Assyrian

Oppenheim, A. L. 1974. A Babylonian Diviner’s Manual. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 33(2), 197–220. 200

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). di-ru (Lemma #782). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/782/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Pilloni, A. (2024). di-ru (Lemma #782). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/782/
MLA (9th)
Pilloni, A. (2024). di-ru (Lemma #782). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/782/
Harvard
Pilloni, A. (2024) di-ru (Lemma #782), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/782/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac782,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Pilloni, Alessia},
	year = {2024},
	title = {di-ru ({Lemma} #782)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/782/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/782/},
}