Akkadian Dictionary

About Akkadian Dictionary

Contains vocabulary of over 3350 words. The dictionary provides the meanings in English, German and Arabic. Word wich are similar to Arabic are highlighted. This makes over 50% of the vocabulary in this dictionary.

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People from Arabian who lived in Akkad (so-called Akkadian) are emigrated tribes from south Arabia (about 4000-6000 BCE) to the east of Arabia first then to Mesopotamia (Iraq). Despite the huge distance (for that days) to homeland and the evolution of the language of Akkadians, in this study we find a very large amount of vocabulary which corresponds to Arabic. This is the case even if you consider foreign Sumerian words adapted in Akkadian. In this work, Arabic was used in the interpretation of already transliterated and transcribed words into Latin. The Akkadian lived in a different environment than the homeland and mingled with the Sumerians and adopted many of the there vocabulary. Despite thousands of years between the emigration and demise of Assur, then Babylon, Arabic speakers can still understand and identify over 50% of the words (despite transcription in Latin). Not to forget that Arab tribes are attested in Mesopotamia and lived in the Levant since about at least 1000 BCE. Arab tribes were everywhere west of Euphrates and engaged especially with the Babylonians (reference: City of Babylon) and also Assyrians (reference: place / God Assur) worked. Arabs settled in city where called as to the name of these cities (not called Arabs).

Away from all speculations, the Sumero-Akkadian culture is the Heritage of the people of todays Iraq and Arabian including the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, the homeland of the Akkadian.

Even before the first millennium, the Arabs lived in Mesopotamian and the Syrian Jazeera. From the 8th century BCE, the Assyrians and Babylonians recorded Arabs living (every where) in eastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Iran, settled in large numbers in Babylonia, in the Syrian Jazira, on the slopes Of the Anti-Lebanon mountains, in north and north-west Arabia, and in Sinai.

Akkadian is a Peninsulan language (Related to the mother tongue of the Arabian Peninsula; similar to Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew etc.); as the word semitic is misleading, wrong in origin and is misused politically. There is neither a Semitic language nor people descended from the so called Shem, a fictional son of a virtual Noah adopted in plagiarism from Sumerian-Akkadian Religion known since about BCE 4000.