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Akkadian
papparminnu - (a stone)
(CAD P 110, AHw. 824)
Var. papparmīnu, papparinu.
From the Sum. stone name BABBAR.MIN(₅) (see PSD B 23, 31), lit. ‘(a stone with) two white (bands)’.