Tammuz

American  

[tah-mooz, tah-mooz, tam-uhz] / ˈtɑ mʊz, tɑˈmuz, ˈtæm ʌz /

noun

1. the tenth month of the Jewish calendar.

2. a Sumerian and Babylonian shepherd god, originally king of Erech, confined forever in the afterworld as a substitute for his consort Inanna or Ishtar.

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Tammuz British  

/ ˈtæmuːz, -ʊz /

noun

1. (in the Jewish calendar) the fourth month of the year according to biblical reckoning and the tenth month of the civil year, usually falling within June and July

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Etymology

Origin of Tammuz

First recorded in 1530–40; from Hebrew tamûz, from Sumerian Dumuzi, the shepherd god Tammuz

Example Sentences

“When you look at the global map currently,” said Doron Mamet, a co-chief executive officer of Tammuz, a surrogacy agency based in Israel, “there are only a few options that are open.”

From New York Times • May 2, 2016

On Wednesday, after his government complained that the temporary U.S. suspension of the latest F-16 shipment was "unjust," Begin made a new claim about the Tammuz reactor.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition the 70-MW Tammuz reactor was 14 times as powerful as most research reactors, and Israeli physicists contend it could have been modified to readily produce weapons-grade plutonium.

From Time Magazine Archive

He meant the French-built Tammuz 1 nuclear reactor at El-Tuwaitha, 10½ miles southwest of Baghdad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tammuz had perished by an untimely death, and it was fitting that the death of the god should be celebrated when nature also seemed to die.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)