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Akkadian
bāṣu - sand
(CAD B 134, AHw. 110)
Or baṣṣu. Cf. bāṣiš ‘like sand’ (CAD B 134, AHw. 110).
The Akkadian lexeme has been compared to Hbr.
bōṣ
‘silt’.