"ashipu" meaning in All languages combined

See ashipu on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ashipus [plural], ashipu [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|ashipu}} ashipu (plural ashipus or ashipu)
  1. (historical) A magical healer in ancient Mesopotamia. Tags: historical Synonyms: āshipu, asipu, āšipu
    Sense id: en-ashipu-en-noun-kEaDwi7u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1999, JoAnn Scurlock, edited by Abusch & van der Toorn, Mesopotamian Magic, page 79:",
          "text": "Whatever the patient's requirements, however, the āšipu is unlikely to have had time to acquire more than a basic working knowledge of the medicaments which he was attempting to use.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Barbara A Somervill, Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia, page 120:",
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          "ref": "2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 49:",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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