English words from Akkadian
- 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.
- galluA great demon or devil of the ancient Mesopotamian Underworld.
- assurforbidden
- zigguratA temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
- 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.
- 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.
- UrartuAn Iron Age kingdom flourishing 9th-6th century BC, located in the Armenian Highland and centred in the mountainous region around Lake Van.