Word.ws English Dictionary

kudurru

kudurru noun: a boundary stone used by the Kassites in ancient Babylonia, bearing a written record of the ownership of the land on which it stood.

kudurru: a boundary stone used by the Kassites in ancient Babylonia, bearing a written record of the...
Image: Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

kudurru (plural kudurrus)

  1. A boundary stone used by the Kassites in ancient Babylonia, bearing a written record of the ownership of the land on which it stood.

Forms of kudurru

pluralkudurrus

Origin of kudurru

Probably from Elamitehttps://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah24122 or Akkadian 𒃻𒁺 (kudurru).

Questions about kudurru

What does kudurru mean?
Kudurru means a boundary stone used by the Kassites in ancient Babylonia, bearing a written record of the ownership of the land on which it stood.
What part of speech is kudurru?
Kudurru is a noun.
What is the plural of kudurru?
The plural of kudurru is kudurrus.

Words near kudurru in the dictionary

  1. Kudrnas
  2. kudu
  3. kudu berries
  4. kudu berry
  5. kuduro
  6. kudurru
  7. kudurrus
  8. kuduru
  9. kudus
  10. kudyapi
  11. kudyapis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kudurru (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kudurru.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kudurru. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.