Ištar

== Akkadian == === Etymology === From Proto-Semitic *ʕaṯtar-. Cognate with Arabic عَثْتَر (ʕaṯtar) and Biblical Hebrew עַשְׁתֹּרֶת (ʕaštórɛṯ). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈiʃ.tar/ === Proper noun === Ištar f 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) ==== Descendants ==== → English: Ishtar → Finnish: Ištar → Classical Syriac: ܐܸܣܬܪܵܐ (ʾestrā) → Mandaic: ࡏࡎࡕࡏࡓࡀ (ʿestira) == Czech == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɪʃtar] === Proper noun === Ištar f 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 (in Czech) == Finnish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Akkadian Ištar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈiʃtɑr/, [ˈiʃt̪ɑ̝r] Rhymes: -iʃtɑr Syllabification(key): Iš‧tar Hyphenation(key): Iš‧tar === Proper noun === Ištar Ishtar (goddess of love and war, associated with the planet Venus, corresponding to the Sumerian Inanna) ==== Declension ====