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Mandaic for “wailing” (1)

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Mesopotamian loanwords in Mandaic
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.01 Imperial languages
11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features
11.01.05.05 Mesopotamian loanwords
11.01.05.05.01 Mesopotamian loanwords in Aramaic
11.01.05.05.01.01 Mesopotamian loanwords in Mandaic
Wailing
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.04 Secular rituals
03.04.02 Funeral ritual
03.04.02.03 Wailing

Keywords
Mandaic language
naming

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Channel
Mandean culture

Text
The Mandaic word for “lamentation, mourning, wailing” is numbia, which most probably derives from the Akkadian word nubû or numbû with the same meaning.

Bibliography

Drower and Macuch 1963, 294

Drower, E. S. and R. Macuch. A Mandaic Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1963.

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