Inanna

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.

Word forms

Inanna

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀭𒈹 (ᵈinana /⁠inanak⁠/).

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