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          bâ - water(?)
            (CAD B 1, AHw. 93)
        
       
     
   
    
      Attested once in Malku, equated to Akk. mû “water”.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          baˀālu - to be exceptionally big, bright; to be in force, forceful
            (CAD B 1, AHw. 93, EDA I 88)
        
       
     
   
    
      No definitive etymology can be suggested.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          baˀālu - to pray to, to beseech, to supplicate
            (CAD B 2, AHw. 101, EDA I 85)
        
       
     
   
    
      Var.: bâlu
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          baˀāru - to select, choose; to examine
            (CAD B 212, AHw. 122)
        
       
     
   
    
      Var.: beʾāru, bêru, baḫāru (baḫāru is attested once in an unpublished letter from Mari).
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          baˀāru - to catch, to fish, to hunt
            (CAD B 2, AHw. 108)
        
       
     
   
    
      Var.: bâru.
Since Bittner 1911, 147, the Akkadian verb is thought to be related to Mhr. bîter “fischen” (Jahn 1902, 250, not in ML), Jib. ebtér “to hunt” (JL 32), Soq. bˁr “pêcher” (LS 92).
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          baˀāru - to stir up a revolt
            (CAD B 130, AHw. 108)
        
       
     
   
    
      No etymology can be suggested.
Cf. perhaps Arb. fwr “to boil; to be agitated, excited” (Lane 2457), even if the irregular correspondence of the labials is hard to explain.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          baˀāšu - to smell bad, be of bad quality
            (CAD B 4, AHw. 94, SAD I 2)
        
       
     
   
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          babaltu - (a plant)
            (CAD B 6, AHw. 94)
        
       
     
   
    
      Or babbaltu.
No etymology can be suggested.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          babalu - leader
            (CAD B 7, AHw. 1546)
        
       
     
   
    
      Or babālu, babba/ālu. 
No definitive etymology can be suggested.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          bābānû - outer
            (CAD B 7; AHw 94)