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• Adad
  Adad

  noun

  Babylonian god of storms and wind.
• ADAD
  ADAD

  noun

  a coded card or other device that when inserted into a telephone allows the user to reach a number without dialing.

Adad

¹ American  

[ah-dahd] / ˈɑ dɑd /

noun

1. Babylonian god of storms and wind.

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ADAD ² American  

[ey-dad] / ˈeɪ dæd /

noun

1. a coded card or other device that when inserted into a telephone allows the user to reach a number without dialing.

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Etymology

Origin of ADAD

a(utomatic telephone) d(ialing-)a(nnouncing) d(evice)

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Adad

These tablets reveal that Ebla especially worshipped the storm god Adad, who was honored with the title “Ba‘al” or lord.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

But below him, an image of Adad, the god of weather, is barely visible - lost to the ravages of time and climate change.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2022

Grand prince, whose prayers Adad knows well, I soothed the heart of Adad, the warrior in Bît Karkara.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

About 541, Adad, the king of Ethiopia, was converted by the preaching of Mansionarius; the Heruli beyond the Danube, were now made obedient to the faith, and the Abasgi, near the Caucasian Mountains.

From An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Considered by William Carey

Evidence seems to favour the view that Ramman was the name current in Babylonia, whereas Adad was more common in Assyria.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg