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NINKHURSAG

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Overview

NINKHURSAG (noun)
  The noun NINKHURSAG has 1 sense:

1. the great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintuplay

  Familiarity information: NINKHURSAG used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


NINKHURSAG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ninhursag; Ninkharsag; Ninkhursag

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)


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