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Akkadian
bubû - (a topographical feature)
(CAD B 300, AHw. 1548)
No definitive etymology can be suggested. Cf. perhaps JBA bwbytˀ, bbytˀ “channel” (DJBA 190), Syr. bubyā “canalis, aquaeductus” (LSyr. 62).