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In LA 1 253 as ‘one with thin articulations, a lean and tiny one. His excess is not in his face, nor in his bones, but his excess is in his belly and his lower parts’.

For the possibility of this word to be a loan from Akkadian izbu cf. Kogan–Krebernik 2021a:391 with references to preceding studies.

 

ˀalaⁿ, ˀilaⁿ
šaǯaru ḥasanu l-manḏ̣ari murru ṭ-ṭaˁāmi (good-looking tree with bitter taste)

This preposition (or the “exceptive particle” as it is usually referred to in Arabic grammars, see Wright 1974 II 335) probably goes back to PS *ˀila/*ˀilla. There are, however, some arguments against such a connection. Akkadian forms ela, elat, illa are thought to be derived from the adjective elû ‘high’ (”above” > “besides”, see GAG 206, Tomback 1978:248), while Arb. ˀillā is usually analyzed as a combination of ˀin ‘if’ and lā ‘not, no’. See Arakelova 2001:28.

ˀal-ḥarbatu l-ˁaḏ̣īmatu n-naṣli