Ishtar

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Ishtar

(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.

Translations

Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war

Polish: Isztar f

Anagrams

A-shirt, Trisha

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