Nineveh

Etymology
From (under influence from ), from, from , ultimately from  or Old Babylonian  of uncertain origin, but is clearly a variation of. The cuneiform seems to denote "House of Fish", although whether this referred to literal fish, an aspect of Ishtar, a separate Hurrian goddess, or something else entirely is unclear.

The traditional folk etymology in classical antiquity derived it from an eponymous founder Ninus (Greek: ).

Proper noun

 * , now Mosul, Iraq.

Translations

 * Arabic: نِينَوَى
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ
 * Armenian: Նինվե
 * Burmese: နိနဝေမြို့
 * Car Nicobarese: Ninevē
 * Catalan: Nínive
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 尼尼微
 * Danish: Nineve
 * Finnish: Ninive
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნინევია
 * German:
 * Greek: Νινευή
 * Ancient: Νινευή, Νινειΐ
 * Hebrew: נִינְוֵה
 * Irish: Ninivé
 * Italian: Ninive
 * Japanese: ニネヴェ
 * Korean: ^니네베
 * Latin: Nīnevē, Nīnivē
 * Macedonian: Нини́ва
 * Marathi: निनेव्हे
 * Ottoman Turkish: نينوه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Nínive
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: นิเนเวห์
 * Turkish: Ninova