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Ish⋅tar

  [ish-tahr]
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–noun
the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna.
Also called Mylitta.
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Ish·tar   (ĭsh'tär')   
n.   Mythology
The chief Babylonian and Assyrian goddess, associated with love, fertility, and war, being the counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.

[Akkadian Ištar; see ʕṯtr in Semitic roots.]
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Ishtar 
chief goddess of the Assyrians and Babylonians, counterpart of Phoenician Astarte (q.v.), from Akkad. Ishtar.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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