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Definition of kuneiform in Turkish English dictionary
- (Tıp) cuneiform
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets
- Written in cuneiform: cuneiform script, cuneiform writing
- They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively
- A system of writing, common in the ancient Near East, using characters made up of wedge shapes Compare hieroglyphics
- Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them
- The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions
- The earliest writing system (used, for example, in ancient Mesopotamia) A form of writing on wet clay tablets using a wedge-like writing tool called a stylus
- One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; called also pyramidal and ulnare
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped
- Early Mesopotamian writing that used a stylus (writing implement) to write wedge-shaped impressions on raw clay; from the Latin word for wedge
- The oldest form of writing, invented by the ancient Sumerians around 3,000 BC The word "cuneiform" means "wedge-shaped" and refers to the peculiar shapes of the marks made by sharpened reeds on clay tablets
- One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
- Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions
- [writ] Wedge shaped form used in inscriptions of Mesopotamians and Persians Generally written on wet clay tablets, then fired
- of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)
- A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone
- written characters originally formed in clay by small, wedge-shaped tools used in the ancient Near East