Definitions for Ishtar

Ishtar Ish·tar

Spelling: [ish-tahr]
IPA: /ˈɪʃ tɑr/

Ishtar is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in Ishtar (ahirst).

Definitions for Ishtar

noun

  1. the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.

Examples for Ishtar

Belle Jar has more: Ishtar was the goddess of love, war and sex.

The seat of the latter was in Nineveh, as was of course also the seat of Ishtar of Nineveh.

Ishtar they regarded as their own goddess quite as much as Ashur.

(I am) Ishtar,—to open the lock of heaven belongs to my supremacy.

The name Easter may, or may not, be derived from the Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar—the source of the Hebrew name Esther.

Ishtar, the daughter of Sin, is number fifteen, the half of thirty.

Ukhatu is a name for a harlot devoted to the worship of Ishtar.

Phrases introduced to illustrate the power, not the function, of Ishtar.

I am Ishtar of Arbela, who forces thine enemies to submission.

Anyway, the point I am trying to make here is that, yes, Ishtar was associated with fertility and sex.

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