pušqum

Compare 𒉽𒄬 (pašāqum, “to become narrow, difficult”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuʃ.qum/

pušqum m (construct state pušuq, plural pušqū) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. narrowness, narrow place, strait
2. (transferred sense) distress, hardship, dire straits

• pušqu (non-mimated), pulqu (Middle Babylonian)

• “pušqu”, 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), “pušqu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library