Number: 2362
Proto-Semitic: *baḳḳ-
Meaning: gnat
Akkadian: baḳḳu (bāḳu) 'gnat' OB on [CAD b 101], [AHw. 105]. // In OB only in the lexical list MSL 2 139.19 (nu-úNU = ba-aḳ-ḳum) and in proper names. Further details see in [Landsberger Fauna 131]. The reading ba-ḳí in the OAkk. incantation Kish 1930 143:12,32 adopted in [AHw.] is to be abandoned, see discussion in [CAD]. // A reduplicated form baḳbaḳḳu 'small gnat' SB [CAD b 100], [AHw. 1547] is known only from the title of an incantation (ÉN baḳbaḳḳu 'the incantation "Little gnat"' Or. 34.108.7). // Evidence for buḳāḳu 'little gnat' OAkk., Mari [CAD b 323], [AHw. 139] is limited to proper names (more details on buḳāḳu in Mari see in [Streck 168, 192]).
Judaic Aramaic: baḳḳā, baḳḳǝtā 'gnat' [Ja. 185], [Levy WTM I 253].
Syrian Aramaic: bāḳā 'culex' [Brock. 87], [PS 573].
Arabic: baḳḳ- 'cousin' [BK 1 148], [Fr. I 140], [Lane 233], [LA X 23].
Harsusi: beḳḳét, beḳáyt 'bug' [JH 17].
Notes: [Fron. 297]: *baḳḳ- 'moscerino' (Arb., Syr., Akk.); [DRS 79]: Arb., Arm.; [Landsberger 131], [AHw. 105]: Akk., Arm., Arb.
