text: One of the hypostases of the South Arabian ʿAṯtar was  (), whose name, which was a -pattern Semitic word formation meaning "rainfall," was related to Geʽez  (), Amharic  (), Tigrē  (), and Eastern Gurage  (), all meaning "rainy season." Kirrūm was thus a form of ʿAṯtar who provided fertility in the form of the rain he dispensed.
  The Babylonians identified Kirrūm, under the name  (), with their own goddess  (), who was herself the goddess of the planet Venus as well as the Mesopotamian feminine form of ʿAṯtar.
  Another hypostasis of the South Arabian ʿAṯtar was  (), that is ʿAṯtar of the East, who was invoked especially in curses as an avenger god against enemies.
  Among Arabs
  ʿAṯtar was worshipped as a masculine deity among the ancient Arabs, who during the Iron Age were located principally in the Syrian Desert and North Arabia.
  Similarly to the link between ʿAttar and the ancestral cult of the  among the Aramaeans, there also existed a connection between ʿAttar and the cult of the ancestors among Arabs which is attested from as early as the 7th century BC in the form of a personal name recorded in Akkadian as  (), from an original Ancient North Arabian form , in which the divine patron of a clan or tribe, the  (, of which  is the -type broken plural), is assimilated to ʿAttar.