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SUMER
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I. (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)
