Ishtar

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒈹 (dIštar).

Proper noun

Ishtar

  1. 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.

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