Save Gender Masculine Usage Sumerian Scripts 饞垪饞啨饞嫑(Sumerian Cuneiform) Other Forms FormsLugaltarsi Meaning & History Possibly deriving from Sumerian element lugal, meaning "king, owner, master", and tar " to cut; to decide". Name of a King of Uruk and Ur (some contemporary sources also place him as King of Kish), circa 2400 BCE.