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Telmun

Telmun is the alternative form of Dilmun.

Meaning of Dilmun

Proper noun

Dilmun

  1. An ancient civilisation and trading empire existing between the late-fourth and early-first millennia BC, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh, believed to have centred on the island of Bahrain and at the height of its power encompassing also the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf as far north as present-day Kuwait.

Origin of Telmun

Representing the reconstructed Semitic pronunciation.

Questions about Telmun

What is Telmun the alternative form of?
Telmun is the alternative form of Dilmun.

Words near Telmun in the dictionary

  1. telmisartan
  2. telmophage
  3. telmophages
  4. telmophagic
  5. telmophagous
  6. Telmun
  7. telnet
  8. telnetable
  9. telneted
  10. telneting
  11. telnets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Telmun (page history and authors); Dilmun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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