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

A stark example is Israel's 1981 air attack against the French-built Tammuz nuclear reactor in Iraq.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But France subsequently revealed that under a secret agreement with Iraq, French technicians had kept a constant eye on the workings of the Tammuz plant.

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)