Ishtar
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing
from
Akkadian
ð’€ð’ˆ¹
(
d
IÅ¡tar
)
.
Proper noun
Ishtar
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
.
Anagrams
A-shirt
,
Trisha
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