د م س

د م س

See also: دمس‎

Arabic

Etymology

Compared by Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou to the root د م ث‎ (d-m-ṯ) related to suavity, to Akkadian 𒁕𒈠𒋳 (da-ma-šum /damāšu/, “to cover, to wipe or efface”) and to Ge'ez ደመሰ (dämäsä, “to efface, to destroy”), at which are also listed ደመሰ (dämmäsä, “to bury, to cover, to hide”), ድሙስ (dəmus), ደሙስ (dämus, “dark, clouded”). Compare د م ج‎ (d-m-j) and د ب س‎ (d-b-s) and د ه م‎ (d-h-m), also of darker colour meanings. There is some interference from دَيْمَاس‎ (daymās, “dungeon; mattamore; latibulum”), compare the development of denominal verbs from مَطْمُورَة‎ (maṭmūra, “underground grain cubbyhole”) and نَامُوس‎ (nāmūs).

Root

د م س • (d-m-s)

1. related to sombreness

Derived terms

• Form I: دَمَسَ‎ (damasa, “to be darkish or gloomy”)
  • Verbal noun: دُمُوس‎ (dumūs)
  • Active participle: دَامِس‎ (dāmis, “sombre”)
  • Passive participle: مَدْمُوس‎ (madmūs)
• Form I: دَمَسَ‎ (damasa, “to store away, to hide, to bury”)
  • Active participle: دَامِس‎ (dāmis)
  • Passive participle: مَدْمُوس‎ (madmūs)
• Form II: دَمَّسَ‎ (dammasa, “to store away, to hide, to bury”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدْمِيس‎ (tadmīs)
  • Active participle: مُدَمِّس‎ (mudammis)
  • Passive participle: مُدَمَّس‎ (mudammas)
• Form III: دَامَسَ‎ (dāmasa, “to hide”)
  • Verbal noun: مُدَامَسَة‎ (mudāmasa), دِمَاس‎ (dimās)
  • Active participle: مُدَامِس‎ (mudāmis)
  • Passive participle: مُدَامَس‎ (mudāmas)
• Form V: تَدَمَّسَ‎ (tadammasa, “to besmear oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَدَمُّس‎ (tadammus)
  • Active participle: مُتَدَمِّس‎ (mutadammis)
• Form VII: اِنْدَمَسَ‎ (indamasa, “to go into the dungeon; to go to the bathhouse”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْدِمَاس‎ (indimās)
  • Active participle: مُنْدَمِس‎ (mundamis)
• Form XIII: اِدْمَوَّسَ‎ (idmawwasa, “to be covered by sombre clouds”)
  • Verbal noun: اِدْمِوَّاس‎ (idmiwwās)
  • Active participle: مُدْمَوِّس‎ (mudmawwis)

• أَدْمُوس‎ (ʾadmūs, “sombre”)
• دَمَس‎ (damas, “covered”)
• دِمَاس‎ (dimās, “masking garment, synonym of حِجَاب‎ (ḥijāb)”)
• دَمِيس‎ (damīs, “covered”)
• دَمُوس‎ (damūs, “covering”)

Further reading

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 477
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “د م س”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 460
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “د م س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 55–56a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “د م س”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 731b
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “د م س”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 681a
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “د م س”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 337b
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “د م س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 405