Hurrian

n. 胡里安人；胡利安语 a. 胡利安人的；胡利安语的

发音

UK /ˈhʌ.ɹɪ.ən/
US /ˈhʌɹ.i.ən/
US /ˈhɝ.i.ən/

词形变化

Hurrians 复数 Hurrians more Hurrian 比较级 most Hurrian 最高级

别名

Khurrite

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC.

    历史
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or pertaining to the Hurrians or their language or culture.

name
  1. 1.

    The language of Hurrians, neither Indo-European nor Semitic, whose only known relative is the Urartian.

词源

From Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (Ḫu-ur-ri). Falkenstein and Kramer had once connected it to Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝 (ḫur-ru-um /ḫurrum/, “a mountain cave, cavern”) when it was misidentified as a proper name of a mountain rather than a generic term; see the epic Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave.

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