dakāšum

Cognate with Hijazi Arabic دقس (“to strike hard, to penetrate into”), Aramaic דְּגַשׁ (dəgaš) and Classical Syriac ܕܓܫ (dəḡeš, “to pierce through, to prick”). Compare also Hebrew דָּגֵשׁ (dagéš).

• IPA^(key): /daˈkaː.ʃum/

dakāšum (G, a-u, durative idakkaš, perfect iddakaš, preterite idkuš, imperative dukuš) (Old Babylonian, Standard Babylonian)

1. to pierce, sting, press in, press on
2. to press out, enlarge

• dakāšu (non-mimated)

• “dakāšu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), “dakāšu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library