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אשור

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אשור¹

  • /(ʔ)aˈʃuʁ/ Modern Israeli

Where it comes from

Apparently related to the pa'al verb אָשַׁר (ashár, “to go straight on, to make progress”) in the sense of being successful, and derived from the root א־ש־ר ('-š-r).

noun אַשּׁוּר · ashúr

  1. boxwood, box tree

אשור²

  • /ʔaʃˈʃūr/
  • [ʔaʃ.ˈʃuʁː]
  • /(ʔ)aˈʃuʁ/ Modern Israeli

Where it comes from

The sense Assyria ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr /⁠aš-šurᵏⁱ⁠/, “Assur”), its original capital city, and that city's eponymous god.

proper noun אַשּׁוּר · ashúr · ʾaššûr

  1. Ashur (a grandson of Noah in Genesis). Also Ashshur, Assur
  2. the Assyrian nation, his descendants
  3. historical Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))

אשור³

noun אִשּׁוּר · ishúr

  1. misspelling defective spelling of אישור

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {אשור},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}