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View Name: Hamilcar
HAMILCAR
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Pronounced:
hə-MIL-kahr
(English)
, HAM-il-kahr
(English)
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Means "friend of Melqart" from Phoenician
hi
"friend" combined with
Melqart
, the name of a Phoenician god. Hamilcar was a 3rd-century BC Carthaginian general, the father of Hannibal.
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