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ENKI

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Overview

ENKI (noun)
  The noun ENKI has 1 sense:

1. water god and god of wisdom; counterpart of the Akkadian Eaplay

  Familiarity information: ENKI used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ENKI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Water god and god of wisdom; counterpart of the Akkadian Ea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)


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