Damascus

Damascus

English

Etymology

From Latin Damascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic form akin to Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק‎.

The etymology of the ancient name Damascus is uncertain. It is attested as Imerišú (𒀲𒋙) in Akkadian, T-m-ś-q (𓍘𓄟𓊃𓈎𓅱) in Egyptian, Dammaśq (𐡃𐡌𐡔𐡒‎) in Old Aramaic and Dammeśeq (דַּמֶּשֶׂק‎) in Biblical Hebrew. A number of Akkadian spellings are found in the Amarna letters, from the 14th century BC: Dimasqa (𒁲𒈦𒋡), Dimàsqì (𒁲𒈦𒀸𒄀), and Dimàsqa (𒁲𒈦𒀸𒋡).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəˈmæskəs/, /dəˈmɑːskəs/

• Audio (UK)

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• Hyphenation: Da‧mas‧cus

Proper noun

Damascus

1. The capital city of Syria.

Derived terms

• Damascene
• Damascus blade
• Damascus iron
• Damascus steel
• Damascus twist
• damask
• damson

 

Translations

the capital city of Syria

Afrikaans: Damaskus Akkadian: 𒁲𒈦𒋡 (dimasqa) Albanian: Damasku Amharic: ደማስቆ (dämasḳo) Arabic: دِمَشْق‎ (ar) f (dimašq), جَيْرُون‎ f (jayrūn), الشَّام‎ f (aš-šām) Egyptian Arabic: دمشق‎ f (demešʾ) North Levantine Arabic: الشام‎ f (əš-šām) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ‎ Hebrew: דַּרְמֶשֶׂק‎ (darmeseq) Syriac: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ‎ (darmsūq) Armenian: Դամասկոս (hy) (Damaskos) Old Armenian: Դամասկոս (Damaskos) Assamese: ডামাস্কাছ (damaskas) Azerbaijani: Dəməşq (az), Şam (az) Basque: Damasko Belarusian: Дама́ск m (Damásk) Bengali: দামেস্ক (bn) (dameskô) Breton: Damask m Bulgarian: Дама́ск (bg) m (Damásk) Burmese: ဒမားစကပ်မြို့ (da.ma:ca.kapmrui.) Catalan: Damasc (ca) Chechen: Димашкъ (Dimašqʼ) Chinese: Cantonese: 大馬士革, 大马士革 (daai6 maa5 si6 gaak3) Mandarin: 大馬士革／大马士革 (zh) (Dàmǎshìgé) Chuvash: Дамаск (Damask) Czech: Damašek (cs) m Danish: Damaskus n Dhivehi: ދިމިޝްޤު‎ (dimišqu) Dutch: Damascus (nl) n Egyptian: (tjmsqw) Esperanto: Damasko (eo) Faroese: Damaskus m Finnish: Damaskos (fi) French: Damas (fr) f Galician: Damasco Georgian: დამასკო (damasḳo) German: Damaskus (de) n Greek: Δαμασκός (el) f (Damaskós) Ancient: Δαμασκός f (Damaskós) Hawaiian: Kamakeko Hebrew: דַּמֶּשֶׂק‎ (he) f (daméseq) Hindi: दमिश्क़ m (damiśq), दमिश्क m (damiśk), दिमाश्क़ m (dimāśq), डमास्कस m (ḍamāskas), शाम (hi) m (śām) Hungarian: Damaszkusz (hu) Icelandic: Damaskus Indonesian: Damaskus Irish: an Damaisc f Italian: Damasco (it) f Japanese: ダマスカス (Damasukasu) Kazakh: Дамашық (Damaşyq) Khmer: ដាម៉ាស (km) (daamaah) Korean: 다마스쿠스 (Damaseukuseu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Şam (ku), Dimeşq Kyrgyz: Дамаск (ky) (Damask) Lao: ດາມາດ (dā māt) Latin: Damascus f Latvian: Damaska f Lithuanian: Damaskas m Macedonian: Да́маск m (Dámask) Malay: Damsyik Maltese: Damasku Maore Comorian: Damasko Mongolian: Cyrillic: Дамаск (Damask) Navajo: Damáskʼos Norwegian: Bokmål: Damaskus Nynorsk: Damaskus Pashto: دمشق‎ (ps) m (daméšq), شام‎ m (šām) Persian: دمشق‎ (fa) (damešq), شام‎ (fa) (šâm) Polish: Damaszek (pl) m Portuguese: Damasco (pt) f Quechua: Dimashq Romanian: Damasc (ro) Russian: Дама́ск (ru) m (Damásk) Scottish Gaelic: Damascus Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Да̀маск m Roman: Dàmask (sh) m Sinhalese: දමස්කස් (damaskas) Slovak: Damask m Slovene: Damásk (sl) m Somali: Dimishiq Spanish: Damasco (es) m Swedish: Damaskus (sv) n Tagalog: Damasko Tajik: Димишқ (tg) (Dimišq), Шом (Šom) Tamil: திமிஷ்கு (timiṣku) Tatar: Дамаск (Damask) Thai: ดามัสกัส (daa-mát-gás) Turkish: Şam (tr), Dimaşk Turkmen: Damask Ukrainian: Дама́ск m (Damásk) Urdu: دمشق‎ m (damiśq) Urum: Шам (Şam) Uyghur: دەمەشىق‎ (demeshiq) Uzbek: Damashq (uz), Shom Vietnamese: Đa-mát Welsh: Damascus Yakut: Дамаскус (Damaskus) Yiddish: דמשׂק‎ n (damesek)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch damascus, from Latin Damascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaːˈmɑs.kʏs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Da‧mas‧cus

Proper noun

Damascus n

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria)

Derived terms

• Damasceen

Related terms

• Damasceens
• Damascener

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /daːˈmas.kus/, [d̪äːˈmäs̠kʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /daˈmas.kus/, [d̪äˈmäskus]

Proper noun

Dāmascus f sg (genitive Dāmascī); second declension

1. Damascus (an ancient city and the capital city of modern Syria)

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Dāmascus
Genitive	Dāmascī
Dative	Dāmascō
Accusative	Dāmascum
Ablative	Dāmascō
Vocative	Dāmasce
Locative	Dāmascī

References

• “Damascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Damascus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette