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Akkadian
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʕaṯtar-. Cognate with Arabic عَثْتَر (ʕaṯtar) and Biblical Hebrew עַשְׁתֹּרֶת (ʕaštórɛṯ).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ištar f
- Ishtar (goddess of love and war, associated with the planet Venus, corresponding to the Sumerian Inanna)
Cuneiform spellings
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Phonetic
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- 𒀭𒅖𒋻 (diš-tar)
- 𒀭𒀹𒁯 (diš₈-tar₂)
- 𒀾𒁯 (aš₂-dar)
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Descendants
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ištar f
- Ishtar (a goddess of fertility, love, sex and war)
Declension
This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “Ištar”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)