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Ishtar en · PROPN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒈹 (Ištar). Doublet of Astarte and Ashtoreth. Despite modern folk-etymology, not related in any way to English Easter.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:Mesopotamian mythology) A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.

Deriveds

Fishtar

Translations (8)

fi Eštar (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war) · akk Ištar (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war) · ar عشتار (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war) · pl Isztar (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war) · mr इश्तार (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war) · tr İştar (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war) · fi Ištar (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war) · hi इश्तार (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war)