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ˈɪʃ tɑrishtar

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Ishtar, Mylittanoun

    Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte

Wiktionary

  1. Ishtarnoun

    A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus. Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte.

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  1. Ishtar

    Inanna is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, divine law, and political power. She was originally worshiped in Sumer under the name "Inanna", and later by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians under the name Ishtar (and occasionally the logogram

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  1. ishtar

    Ishtar is a Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, sex, war, justice and political power, worshiped in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian cultures. She is often associated with the planet Venus, and her symbols include lions and the eight-pointed star. She is also seen as the counterpart to the Phoenician goddess Astarte and the Greco-Roman goddess Aphrodite.

Wikidata

  1. Ishtar

    Ishtar is the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna, and is the cognate for the Northwest Semitic Aramean goddess Astarte.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ishtar in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ishtar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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    The first day of work, I was walking the halls of the Brill Building and saw Warren Beatty and Elaine May editing ‘Ishtar,’ i thought, ‘This is the greatest job ever!’.

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