English words from Sumerian
- urExpressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.
- galaCelebratory; festive.
- nanaA banana.
- MardukA late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.
- KurA mountain or mountains, usually identified as the Zagros mountains to the east of Sumer.
- nannagrandmother
- utuCompensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge.
- ApsuFresh water from underground aquifers that was given a religious quality.
- EnkiA god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
- InannaA Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.
- EnkiduCompanion of Gilgamesh in the poem Epic of Gilgamesh from ancient Mesopotamia.
- TammuzThe tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av.
- EnlilA chief deity listed and written about in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets; the god of breath, wind, loft, and breadth.
- UgariticOf or pertaining to the ancient city of Ugarit.
- NergalA deity worshipped throughout ancient Mesopotamia, associated with war, pestilence, and the Sun.
- EblaOne of the earliest kingdoms in modern-day Syria, founded in the 4th millennium BC and abandoned by the 7th century AD.
- AnzuA divine storm-bird in several Mesopotamian religions.
- kungaA kind of equid in ancient Mesopotamia (probably a donkey-onager cross).
- ensiA Sumerian title designating the ruler or prince of a city state.
- LagashAn ancient city in Sumer, in contemporary southeast Iraq.
- dingirAny Sumerian deity.
- edubbaA Sumerian 'house of tablets', a place of learning where archives and literature were stored on clay tablets. A school and repository of knowledge.
- EmegirThe standard variety of the Sumerian language.
- EmesalA variety or sociolect of the Sumerian language, used exclusively by female characters in some literary texts.
- EnheduannaA priestess of the moon deity Nanna and the first named author.
- EreshkigalThe goddess of the underworld.
- GutianA member of the Guti people.
- lugalA ruler of a city state in ancient Sumer.
- MeluhhaPossibly the Indus Valley Civilization; a civilization located east of Mesopotamia.
- NinhursagThe Sumerian earth and mother goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer.
- NinurtaA Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war
- NisabaThe Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest.
- nunuz stoneA type of ancient Sumerian carved oval or ovoid ornamental stone.
- SarpanitA mother goddess and the consort of the chief Babylonian god, Marduk.
- ShuruppakA former city in Sumer
- SubarianA person belonging to the ancient culture of Subartu.