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Adad

¹ American

[ah-dahd] / ˈɑ dɑd /

noun

Babylonian god of storms and wind.

ADAD ² American

[ey-dad] / ˈeɪ dæd /

noun

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)

Example Sentences

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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

A characteristic atmospheric deity was Ramman, the Rimmon of the Bible, the Semitic Addu, Adad, Hadad, or Dadu.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

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 Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

In the Assyrian inscriptions he appears as a god of war, and the kings constantly compare the destruction which their armies had wrought with that of "Adad the inundator."

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

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