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Akkadian
bašāmu - sack, sackcloth
(CAD B 137, AHw. 111)
Var. bešāmu.
The complete phonological and semantic overlap between the Akkadian word and Tgr.
bašəmma
‘rag; penitential garment’ is too striking to be accidental.