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HAMILCAR

Gender: Masculine

Usage: History

Pronounced: hə-MIL-kahr (English), HAM-il-kahr (English)   [key]

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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