How do you use Hurrian in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Hurrian meaning
A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC.
Using Hurrian
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC.
- In the example corpus, hurrian often appears in combinations such as: the hurrian, of hurrian, hurrian culture.
Context around Hurrian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hurrian
- In this selection, "hurrian" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kizzuwatna, long, powerful, cult, cylinder and religion stand out and add context to how "hurrian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include hurrian cylinder seals and a hurrian musical score. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hurrian" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hurrian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She was the origin of the Hurrian cult. (8 words)
A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit: The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music. (11 words)
Hurrian cylinder seals were carefully carved and often portrayed mythological motifs. (11 words)
One analysis shows that the majority were, however, Hurrian (a non-Semitic-speaking group from Asia Minor who spoke a language isolate ), though there were a number of Semites and even some Kassite and Luwian adventurers amongst their number. (39 words)
Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class that governed a predominately Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Kassite Babylon created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia. (33 words)
The Khabur Valley had a central position in the metal trade, and copper, silver and even tin were accessible from the Hurrian-dominated countries Kizzuwatna and Ishuwa situated in the Anatolian highland. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
From the Hurrian cult centre at Kummanni in Kizzuwatna Hurrian religion spread to the Hittite people.
It was the only long Hurrian text known until a multi-tablet collection of literature in Hurrian with a Hittite translation was discovered at Hattusa in 1983.
Urartu However, a power vacuum was to allow a new and powerful Hurrian state whose rulers spoke Urartian, similar to old Hurrian, to arise.
A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit: The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music.
Among these fragments are found the names of four Hurrian composers, Tapšiẖuni, Puẖiya(na), Urẖiya, and Ammiya.
As noted above, important discoveries of Hurrian culture and history were also made at Alalakh, Amarna, Hattusa and Ugarit.
Despite the conjectural nature of reconstructions of the piece known as the Hurrian songs from the surviving score, the evidence that it used the diatonic scale is much more soundly based.
Following this, it found itself under short periods of Babylonian and Mitanni Hurrian rule in the 18th and 15th centuries BC respectively.
Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class that governed a predominately Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Kassite Babylon created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia.
Gold was in short supply, and the Amarna letters inform us that it was acquired from Egypt. Not many examples of Hurrian metal work have survived, except from the later Urartu.
Hurrian cylinder seals often depict mythological creatures such as winged humans or animals, dragons and other monsters.
Hurrian cylinder seals were carefully carved and often portrayed mythological motifs.
It also accompanies the Hurrian god of sky and storm Teshub (his Hittite and Luwian name was Tarhun).
Music main Among the Hurrian texts from Ugarit are the oldest known instances of written music, dating from c. 1400 BCE.
One analysis shows that the majority were, however, Hurrian (a non-Semitic-speaking group from Asia Minor who spoke a language isolate ), though there were a number of Semites and even some Kassite and Luwian adventurers amongst their number.
She was the origin of the Hurrian cult.
Since Sumerian and Hurrian, two non-Semitic languages, differ from Akkadian in word structure, only nouns and some adjectives (not many verbs) were borrowed from these languages.
Tarhunt ( Hurrian 's Teshub) was referred to as 'The Conqueror', 'The king of Kummiya', 'King of Heaven', 'Lord of the land of Hatti'.
The Hittites were influenced by both the Hurrian and Hattian cultures over the course of several centuries.
The Khabur Valley had a central position in the metal trade, and copper, silver and even tin were accessible from the Hurrian-dominated countries Kizzuwatna and Ishuwa situated in the Anatolian highland.
Common combinations with hurrian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: