English Explanatory Dictionary

Sumer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.

Pronunciation

/ˈs(j)uːmə/ sōōmʹər /ˈsuːmɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Sumer.wav

Word forms

Sumer

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒋗𒈨𒊒 (Šumeru), in Assyriology since the 1870s; compare French sumérien since 1872. Compare Shumer, Sumir. More at Sumer.

Related words

Shinar

Derived words

Sumeria Sumerian Sumerogram Sumerology
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