𐎛𐎁

Ugaritic

Etymology 1

Cognate to Akkadian 𒀀𒀀𒁍𒌝 (ayyābum), Hebrew אוֹיֵב (ʔoyeḇ).

Noun

𐎛𐎁 • (ỉb) m

1. enemy
   • 14th–13th C. BCE, Baal Cycle, tablet 2 (KTU 1.2), column 4, lines 8–9; edited in The Cuneiform alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places‎^[1], second, enlarged edition, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1995, →ISBN, page 9:

     𐎅𐎚𐎟𐎛𐎁𐎋
     𐎁𐎓𐎍𐎎𐎟𐎅𐎚𐎟𐎛𐎁𐎋𐎟𐎚𐎎𐎃𐎕𐎟𐎅𐎚𐎟𐎚𐎕𐎎𐎚𐎕𐎗𐎚𐎋

     ht · ỉbk
     bʿlm · ht · ỉbk · tmḫṣ · ht · tṣmt ṣrtk

     Now thine enemy, O Baal,
     now thine enemy wilt thou smite,
     now wilt thou cut off thine adversary.

Etymology 2

Cognate to Akkadian 𒄧 (inbum), Arabic أَبّ (ʔabb, “meadow”), Aramaic אִנְבָּא (ʔinbā), Hebrew אֵב (ʔeḇ).

Noun

𐎛𐎁 • (ỉb) m

1. bud, flower

Further reading

• Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “ỉb (I)”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 5–6
• Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “ỉb (II)”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 6