nanna
n.
(Informal) grandmother
Nanna
Nanna
Noun
1. (Norse mythology) wife of Balder
(hypernym) Norse deity
(classification) Norse mythology
2. god of the moon; counterpart of the Akkadian Sin
(hypernym) Semitic deity
(classification) Sumer
nanna (f)
n.
bye-byes, beddy-byes
Nanna
[Mesopotamian] The Sumerian moon-god, called 'Lord of Destiny'. He is a son of Enlill and Ninlil and his wife is Ningal. Their children are Inanna, Utu, and Ishkur. Nanna's cult center was at Ur (the ruin-city Tell Muqayyir, in Iraq), as was the residence of his high priestesses. His Akkadian counterpart is Sin.