There is no doubt that time and timings are of great importance in our daily life, and none of us are forgotten, because of the influence of time in probing our actions and organizing the movement of people and related matters.
So we must return to the origins of this system and to the foundations on which it is based and the roots of the timing divisions from which the vocabulary of our current timing has benefited in its most accurate details, and the starting point of our conversation depends mainly on the names of these divisions in ancient Iraq by dissecting the origins of these vocabulary in cuneiform sources, and comparing them with what We adopt it in our time from terminology regarding timing.
The timing system was of interest to the astronomers of ancient Iraq, for they have the merit in giving its names and controlling its divisions with extreme accuracy, and we should start with today where they divided it into two parts: light and dark. UD) and in the Akkadian language (umu), and the Akkadian word is closer to its synonym in Arabic
A day, the second part was the night, which was known in the Sumerian language (GE), while the Akkadians called it "Salamu or Salmur", meaning darkness and darkness, which corresponds to the same meaning and the Arabic term.