Ištar

See also: ISTAR and istar

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʕaṯtar-. Cognate with Arabic عَثْتَر (ʕaṯtar) and Biblical Hebrew עַשְׁתֹּרֶת (ʕaštórɛṯ).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈiʃ.tar/

Proper noun

Ištar f

1. Ishtar (goddess of love and war, associated with the planet Venus, corresponding to the Sumerian Inanna)

Alternative forms

• Aštar (Old Akkadian)
• Eštar (Ur III, later)

Cuneiform spellings

Logograms	Phonetic
𒀭𒈹 (dINANA) 𒀭𒌋𒐊 (d15) 𒌋𒁯 (U.DAR)	𒀭𒅖𒋻 (diš-tar) 𒀭𒀹𒁯 (diš₈-tar₂) 𒀾𒁯 (aš₂-dar)

Descendants

• → English: Ishtar
• → Classical Syriac: ܐܸܣܬܪܵܐ (ʾestrā)
• → Mandaic: ࡏࡎࡕࡏࡓࡀ (ʿestira)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪʃtar]

Proper noun

Ištar f

1. Ishtar (a goddess of fertility, love, sex and war)

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Ištar in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu