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Tammuz

Thammuz \Tham"muz\, Tammuz \Tam"muz\, n. [Heb. thamm[=u]z.]

  1. A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Ph[oe]nician Adon, or Adonis.
    --Milton.

  2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Tammuz

Babylonian and Assyrian god (identified with Adon), according to Klein's sources probably from Babylonian Du'uzu, contraction of Dumu-zi "the son who rises," also interpeted as "the faithful son."

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Tammuz (deity)

Tammuz (; , Transliterated Hebrew: , Tiberian Hebrew: ; ; , ; Sumerian: (DUMU.ZI(D), "faithful or true son") was the name of a Sumerian god of food and vegetation, also worshiped in the later Mesopotamian states of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia.

Tammuz (Hebrew month)

Tammuz (: Standard , Tiberian ), or Tamuz, is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a boreal summer month of 29 days, which occurs on the Gregorian calendar around June–July.

The name of the month was adopted from the zodiac sign aptly named Tammuz (Hebrew), or in English, Cancer. It is also a month in the modern Assyrian calendar of the ethnic Assyrian Christians.

Tammuz

Tammuz may refer to:

  • Tammuz (deity), Babylonian and Sumerian god
  • Tammuz (Hebrew month), the 4th month of the Hebrew calendar
  • Tammuz (Babylonian calendar), a month in the Babylonian calendar
  • Tammuz 1 or Osirak, formerly a nuclear reactor in Iraq
Tammuz (Babylonian calendar)
''For the Hebrew month, see Tammuz (Hebrew month), for the deity see Tammuz (deity).

Tammuz was a month in the Babylonian calendar, named for one of the main Babylonian gods, Tammuz (Sumerian: Dumuzid, "son of life"). Many different calendar systems have since adopted Tammuz to refer to a month in the summer season.

In the Hebrew calendar, Tammuz is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a summer month of 29 days. Tammuz is also the name for the month of July in the Gregorian calendar in Arabic , Syriac (ܬܡܘܙ) and Turkish ("Temmuz").

Usage examples of "tammuz".

Still complaining to himself, Tammuz arranged the smoldering sticks in the stand, then stalked off toward the building where everyone else had gone.