What is "belit"

Bêlit is a character appearing in the fictional universe of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. She is a pirate queen who has a romantic relationship with Conan. She appears in Howard's Conan novelette Queen of the Black Coast, first published in Weird Tales 23 5 (May 1934). She was selected as the fourth greatest pirate by Wired magazine's Geekdad blog.

Bêlit may refer to:

• Bêlit, a form of the Akkadian word beltu or beltum used in noun compounds.
• Bêlit (Robert E. Howard), a fictional character from the world of Conan the Barbarian.

Bêlit is a form of the Akkadian language word beltu or beltum (meaning "lady, mistress") as used in noun compounds; it appears in titles of goddesses, such as bêlit-ili "lady of the gods", an Akkadian title of Ninhursag. The word bêlit appears in Greek form as Beltis , considered to be the name of the wife of the god Bêl.