Back NIN (wigskrif) Afrikaans نين (لقب) Arabic NIN (cuneïforme) Catalan NIN (Sumer) German Nin (Sumeria) Spanish نین (سومری) Persian Nin (ékírás) Hungarian NIN (клинопись) Russian NIN (klinopis) Slovenian NIN (çivi yazısı) Turkish
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The Sumerian word NIN (𒎏), later borrowed into Akkadian, was used to denote a queen or a priestess, and is often translated as "lady". Other translations include "queen", "mistress", "proprietress", and "lord".[1] The word EREŠ, also meaning "queen" or "lady",[2] is written using the cuneiform sign for NIN as well.
Many goddesses are called NIN or EREŠ, such as DNIN.GAL ("great lady"), DÉ.NIN.GAL ("lady of the great temple"), DEREŠ.KI.GAL, and DNIN.TI.
The compound form NIN.DINGIR ("divine lady" or "lady [of a] god"), denotes a priestess.
- ^ J A Halloran – Lexicon → [1] Retrieved 2012-06-07 & ISBN 0978642902
- ^ J A Halloran – Sumerian Lexicon Version 3.0. Retrieved 2023-09-05.