ḫazannum

== Akkadian == === Etymology === Unknown. Possibly borrowed from a Semitic language, or perhaps from earlier *ḫāziyānum (“overseer”), active participle of Proto-Akkadian verb *ḫazāyum (“to see”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /χaˈzan.num/ === Noun === ḫazannum m (plural hazannātum f) (Standard Babylonian, Middle Assyrian, Mari, Nuzi) mayor, village headman ==== Alternative forms ==== ḫazannu (non-mimated) haziānum, haziānu (Middle Assyrian, Mari) hazannum, hazinnu (Nuzi) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Mishnaic Hebrew: חַזָּן (ḥazzɔ́n) === References === Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), “ḫazannu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library