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Total 42 word senses

• Adad (Proper name) [English] The god of storms in Mesopotamian mythology.
• Adad (Proper name) [Portuguese] Adad (god of storms)
• Anu (Proper name) [Portuguese] Anu (god of heaven)
• Aya (Proper name) [English] In Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.
• Enbilulugugal (Proper name) [English] One of the three aspects of the god Enbilulu, as the power presiding over growth and abundance.
• Enki (Proper name) [English] A god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
• Enlil (Proper name) [English] A chief deity listed and written about in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets; the god of breath, wind, loft, and breadth.
• Ereshkigal (Proper name) [English] The goddess of the underworld.
• Inanna (Proper name) [English] A Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.
• Ishtar (Proper name) [English] 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.
• Isztar (Proper name) [Polish] Ishtar (Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war)
• Nanna (Proper name) [English] The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology.
• Nanna-Suen (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)
• Nergal (Proper name) [English] A deity worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia, associated with war, pestilence, and the Sun.
• Ninlil (Proper name) [English] In Sumerian mythology, the consort goddess of Enlil.
• Ninurta (Proper name) [English] A Mesopotamian god associated with agriculture and war
• Shamash (Proper name) [English] The sun god and god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu.
• Siduri (Proper name) [English] An ancient Babylonian goddess of wisdom, fermentation and merrymaking.
• Sin (Proper name) [English] A desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, situated between Elim and Mount Sinai.
• Suen (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)
• lamassu (Noun) [English] An Assyrian protective deity, often depicted as having the head of a human, the body of an ox or lion, and the wings of a bird.
• 𒀭𒀀𒆷𒆷 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Alala (Primordial god)
• 𒀭𒀀𒇉 (Proper name) [Sumerian] River, river god (a river personified or deified)
• 𒀭𒀫𒌓 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Marduk (patron deity of Babylon)
• 𒀭𒁀𒌑 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Bau (healing and fertility goddess, daughter of Anu, wife of Ning̃irsuk)
• 𒀭𒁁𒇷𒇷 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Belili (primordial god)
• 𒀭𒂗𒆤 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Enlil (the king of the gods of the Sumerian pantheon)
• 𒀭𒅎 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Ishkur (the Sumerian god of storm)
• 𒀭𒆘 (Proper name) [Sumerian] an alad spirit (a male tutelary deity, corresponding to the Akkadian šēdum)
• 𒀭𒈹 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Inanna
• 𒀭𒊺𒉀 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Nisaba (Also Nidaba. Sumerian goddess of grain, knowledge, and scribal arts, patron deity of the city of Ereš)
• 𒀭𒋀𒆠 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Nanna, the moon god, patron of Ur (corresponding to Akkadian Sin)
• 𒀭𒌓 (Proper name) [Sumerian] the sun god Utu (city-god of Larsa)
• 𒀭𒎏𒄈𒋢 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Ningirsu (chief male god of the Lagaš state)
• 𒀭𒎏𒅁 (Proper name) [Sumerian] Ninurta (Sumerian farmer and warrior god)
• ܐܢܘ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Anu: An ancient Mesopotamian god being supreme source of all authority. Corresponding to the Roman god Jupiter and the Greek god Zeus.
• ܠܡܣܘ (Noun) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] lamassu (Assyrian protective deity often depicted as having the head of human, the body of an ox or lion, and the wings of a bird)
• ܢܒܘ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Nabu: An ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom. Corresponding to the Roman God Mercury and the Greek god Hermes.
• ܢܝܢܘܪܬܐ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Ninurta: An ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing and hunting. Corresponding to the Roman god Saturn and the Greek god Cronus.
• ܢܪܓܠ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Nergal: An ancient Mesopotamian god associated with war. Corresponding to the Roman god Mars and the Greek god Ares.
• ܥܫܬܪ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] Ishtar, Astarte, Ashtoreth: An ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex and fertility. Corresponding to the Roman goddess Venus and the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
• ܥܫܬܪ (Proper name) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] A common given name among Assyrian people

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