Ishtar
name
name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 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.
Antonyms
All antonymsEtymology
Learned borrowing from Akkadian ð’€ð’ˆ¹ (IÅ¡tar). Doublet of Astarte and Ashtoreth. Despite modern folk-etymology, not related in any way to English Easter.