Definition of Girru

1. Noun. The Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery.

Geographical relationships: Babylon
Generic synonyms: Semitic Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Girru

Girdlestone
Girdlestone procedure
Gire
Girgenti
Giriama
Girl Guide
Girl Guides
Girl Scout
Girl Scouts
Giro
Girolamo Savonarola
Girona
Gironde
Girondist
Girondists
Girru (current term)
Giselle
Gish
Gish gallop
Gita
Gitmo
Giudecca
Giulio Natta
Giuseppe Balsamo
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
Giuseppe Verdi
Giza
Gjellerup

Literary usage of Girru

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Nusku-Girru is the symbol of the heavenly as well as of the terrestrial fire. ... Nusku-Girru is by the side of Ea, the god of water, the great purifier. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1914)
"... ROBERT B.: 4, 492 Girgashites: 2, 376 Girolamo of Ascoli: 8, 163 Girru: 1, 411 Girsu: 1, 400, ..."

3. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Claude Hermann Walter Johns (1904)
"for girru, also used for ... for five years, to enter on his girru. He shall pay one hundred and eighty SE and three shekels of silver to take back his ..."

4. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1906)
"One of the names of the god of fire, sometimes transcribed Girru by ... Girru is another name of this deity, and translates an ideographic group, ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Nebo, the god of wisdom, to whom the art of writing and the sciences are ascribed; Girru-Nusku, or, simply, Nusku, the god of fire, as II. ..."

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