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Antu

Syllables: An·tu/ˈɑnˈtu/

Antu proper noun: a Mesopotamian goddess, the feminine counterpart of Anu.

Proper noun (1)

Antu

  1. A Mesopotamian goddess, the feminine counterpart of Anu.
    • [...] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248
    • Line 3 of MLC 1890 clearly introduces Antu as the goddess par excellence by juxtaposing […]2021 April 13, Angelika Berlejung, Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations: Studies on the History of Religion and Anthropology of the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page...

Proper noun (2)

Antu

  1. A county of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
    • The map was of the Antu county of Laoling with a scale of one to 250,000, “the locality where Downey and Fecteau were scheduled to pick up agent Li Chun Ying from their aircraft,” the broadcast said and added that the spot was "clearly marked with a pencil."1954 December 1, “Chinese Cite Airlift Methods of U.S. Spies”, in Daily Worker, volume XXI, number 239, New York, page 2, column 2
    • On their persons they had a detailed map of Antu County in Kirin Province of China and a Chinese-English conversation sheet. Downey admitted that earlier he had trained agents who were air-dropped into China and had contacted them.1954 December 25, “Uniformed Spy is a Spy, Says Legal Expert Ch’en T’i-ch’iang”, in Jerome Alan Cohen, Hungdah Chiu, editors, People's China and International Law: A Documentary Study, volume 1...

Proper noun (3)

Antu (plural Antus)

  1. A surname.

Examples of Antu in a sentence

  • There is no mention of the goddess Antu in texts from Uruk prior to the first millennium.2021 November 8, Paul-Alain Beaulieu, The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period, BRILL, →ISBN, page 310:
  • Our first stop is in Antu County, Kirin Province, a rugged and hilly extension of the Changpai foothills.1972, Chi Hsin, “Where the Sunghua River Flows”, in The Seeds and Other Stories, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 145:
  • The source said that a friend from Jilin’s Antu county had told him that only border crossing between the two nations by land, across North Korea’s sacred Mt.2018 September 20, Joonho Kim, Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”...

Forms of Antu

alternative formAn-t'u
pluralAntus

Origin of Antu

From Akkadian 𒀭𒌈.

From Mandarin 安圖 /安图 (Āntú, literally “pacify the Tumen”).

Mexican surname of unexplained origin.

Questions about Antu

What does Antu mean?
Antu means a Mesopotamian goddess, the feminine counterpart of Anu.
How do you use Antu in a sentence?
There is no mention of the goddess Antu in texts from Uruk prior to the first millennium.
What part of speech is Antu?
Antu is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Antu?
Antu is pronounced /ˈɑnˈtu/.

Words near Antu in the dictionary

  1. antsiness
  2. Antsiranana
  3. antsy
  4. antthrush
  5. antthrushes
  6. Antu
  7. Antum
  8. antumbra
  9. antumbrae
  10. Antuna
  11. Antunas

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