erbû  [BURU₅ : ]  (st. constr. erib)

[Animals → Insects]

locust ; tibût erbî locust swarm ;eli erbû mād : more numerous than locusts ; erib garābi : (plant name: "leprosy locust") ; erib nāri : (water insect ?) ; erib tâmti : (crustacean: sea-cicada -scyllaridae-?) ; erib turbu ' ti : dust-storm locust ;

Cf. erbiu

Variants : arbû, aribû, eribû

See also : eribiš, ṣinnarabu, irgilu, zizānu, zizru, zunzunu, ḫilimmu

Comparison with other Semitic languages :

• Proto-Semitic : ^*ʾarbay
• Ugaritic : ỉrby  

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