Tiamat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
  2. A supposed planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.

Word forms

Tiamat

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (tiāmtum, “sea; a deity”), from Proto-Semitic *tihām- (“sea”).

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