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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.


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.


Etymology

Origin of ADAD

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

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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

Virolleaud, Adad No. 3, lines 21 and 33.

From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Morris Jastrow

The process of assimilation did not proceed so far in Babylonia and Assyria, but Shamash and Adad became in combination the gods of oracles and of divination in general.

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

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

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