Hurrian

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

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

Proper Noun

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

Origin

• From Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑. Falkenstein and Kramer had once connected it to Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝 when it was misidentified as a proper name of a mountain rather than a generic term; see the epic Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave.