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

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Example Sentences

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Tammuz

“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

Despite Begin's outlandish utterances, there was a perceptible relaxation by week's end of the fear that the Tammuz raid might set off some new and shocking chain reaction in the Middle East.

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

Because plutonium can be used to make nuclear weapons its possible production at the Tammuz site was central to the Israelis justification for the raid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yakin, it should be noticed, is a very passable translation of the Sumerian Nin-gis-zida; perhaps Boaz preserves, under a corrupted form, a reminiscence of Tammuz.

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

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