SUMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sumer mean? 

• SUMER (noun)
  The noun SUMER has 1 sense:

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Sumer"):

Ur (an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River)

Domain member region:

Gilgamish (legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics)

Enkidu (legendary friend of Gilgamish)

Zu; Zubird (evil storm god represented as a black bird)

Utu; Utug (sun god; counterpart of Akkadian Shamash)

Ninib; Ninurta (a solar deity; firstborn of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identified with biblical Nimrod)

Ninhursag; Ninkharsag; Ninkhursag (the great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu)

Nanna (god of the Moon; counterpart of the Akkadian Sin)

Namtar; Namtaru (a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind)

Nammu (goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth)

Ki (goddess personifying earth; counterpart of Akkadian Aruru)

Inanna (consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz))

Eresh-kigal; Ereshkigal; Ereshkigel (goddess of death and consort of Nergal)

En-lil; Enlil (god of the air and king of the Sumerian gods)

Enki (water god and god of wisdom; counterpart of the Akkadian Ea)

Holonyms ("Sumer" is a part of...):

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)

Babylonia; Chaldaea; Chaldea (an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king))

Derivation:

Sumerian (of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants)