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lugalship

lugalship noun: the office or tenure of a lugal.

Noun

lugalship (plural not attested)

  1. (historical, no plural, rare) The office or tenure of a lugal.
    • called himself "Ensi" as well as "Lugal" (179); the God Ningirsu bestowed upon him the "Lugalship" (nam-lugal) of Lagash (180), and the Goddess Bau destined him for the "shepherdship" (nam-sipa) of the land (181).1962, Silvestro Fiore, Voices from the Clay, A Study on Asyro-Babylonian Poetry, page 103
    • His reform inscriptions state that when he "had received the lugalship ... he removed from the inhabitants of Lagash usury, forestalling, famine, robbery, attacks; he established their freedom ... [and] protected the widow and the orphan from the powerful man."1973, Thomas Walter Wallbank, Alastair MacDonald Taylor, Nels M. Bailkey, Western Perspectives, A Concise History of Civilization, page 18

Origin of lugalship

From lugal + -ship.

Questions about lugalship

What does lugalship mean?
Lugalship means the office or tenure of a lugal.
What part of speech is lugalship?
Lugalship is a noun.

Words near lugalship in the dictionary

  1. lugada
  2. lugadas
  3. Lugait
  4. lugal
  5. lugals
  6. lugalship
  7. Luganda
  8. Lugang
  9. Lugano
  10. Lugansk
  11. Lugansk People's Republic

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