English words from Akkadian
- AbuA common part of Arabic-derived names, meaning "father of" in Arabic.
- MariA Volga-Finnic people in the Volga region.
- SumerA historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
- GilgameshA semi-legendary king of Uruk, who is the hero of the Babylonian poem Epic of Gilgamesh.
- TiamatA Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
- IshtarA goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.
- UrukAn ancient city in Sumer and Babylonia, in modern-day Iraq.
- galluA great demon or devil of the ancient Mesopotamian Underworld.
- Hammurabithe sixth king of Babylon.
- assurforbidden
- zigguratA temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
- shamashThe candle used to light the other eight candles of a Hanukkah menorah or hanukkiah.
- adadExpressing emphasis or asseveration; indeed.
- PazuzuIn Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, the king of the demons of the wind, often depicted as a combination of diverse animal and human parts.
- AddaruThe twelfth month of the Babylonian calendar.
- AntuA Mesopotamian goddess, the feminine counterpart of Anu.
- apkalluA mythical sage or demigod referenced in Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions, sometimes part man and part fish.
- argamannuA red-purple dye.
- KinguA god in Babylonian mythology, the son of Abzu and Tiamat.
- lamassuAn Assyrian protective deity, often depicted as having the head of a human, the body of an ox or lion, and the wings of a bird.
- MushkiAn Iron Age people of Anatolia who appear in Assyrian sources.
- NabopolassarThe first king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who lived c.658 – 605 B.C.E.
- ShabatuThe eleventh month of the Babylonian calendar.
- SubartuA region of upper Mesopotamia in the Bronze Age, which later came to be called Assyria.
- UrartuAn Iron Age kingdom flourishing 9th-6th century BC, located in the Armenian Highland and centred in the mountainous region around Lake Van.