Uruk

See also: ürük and uruk

English

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒌷𒀕 (/⁠uruk⁠/), from Sumerian 𒀕 (unug, “abode, site, location, seat, typically in reference to a deities earthly dwelling”) either as a phonetic alteration of the Sumerian or influenced as a calque translation using Akkadian 𒌷 (/⁠uru⁠/, “city, place of dwelling or collecting under”).

Proper noun

Uruk

1. (historical) An ancient city in Sumer and Babylonia, in modern-day Iraq.
   • 2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:

     […] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.

Derived terms

• Urukean
• Uruk period
• Uruk-Warka

Related terms

• Erech
• Warka

Anagrams

• kuru, ruku'