Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The fourth month of the year in the Jewish calendar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Hebrew month of twenty-nine days, being the tenth of the civil and the fourth of the sacred year. It corresponds to part of June and part of July.
  • noun A Syrian deity, same as the Phenician Adon or Adonis, in whose honor a feast was held every year, beginning with the new moon of the month Tammuz. Also Thammuz.

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  • proper noun A Sumerian god of food and vegetation.
  • proper noun Judaism The tenth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna
  • noun the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hebrew tammūz; akin to Iraqi Arabic tabbūz, July, both ultimately from Sumerian dumu-zi, Dumuzi, a dying and rising shepherd god : dumu, son, offspring + zi, true, effective.]

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From Sumerian 𒌉𒍣 (DUMU.ZID, "the true son").

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Hebrew תַּמּוּז, from a Sumerian god's name (see #Etymology_2).

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