ديس

See also: دبس and دبش

Arabic

دِيس – Ampelodesmos mauritanicus

Etymology

From the root د و س (d-w-s) or lengthened from د س س (d-s-s) because of their being trodden down. Or according to Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou, an Old South Arabian variant of ثُدَّاء (ṯuddāʔ, “desert papyrus (Cyperus conglomeratus)”), hence due to Yemenite expatriates markedly occurring in Northwestern Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːs/

Noun

دِيس • (dīs) m (collective, singulative دِيسَة f (dīsa), plural أَدْيَاس (ʔadyās))

1. rush (Juncus gen. et spp.)
2. bulrush, club-rush (Scirpus gen. et spp.)
3. diss, rope grass (Ampelodesmos, which has only one relevant species Ampelodesmos mauritanicus syn. Ampelodesmos tenax)

Declension

Declension of noun دِيس (dīs)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دِيس dīs	الدِّيس ad-dīs	دِيس dīs
Nominative	دِيسٌ dīsun	الدِّيسُ ad-dīsu	دِيسُ dīsu
Accusative	دِيسًا dīsan	الدِّيسَ ad-dīsa	دِيسَ dīsa
Genitive	دِيسٍ dīsin	الدِّيسِ ad-dīsi	دِيسِ dīsi
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دِيسَة dīsa	الدِّيسَة ad-dīsa	دِيسَة dīsat
Nominative	دِيسَةٌ dīsatun	الدِّيسَةُ ad-dīsatu	دِيسَةُ dīsatu
Accusative	دِيسَةً dīsatan	الدِّيسَةَ ad-dīsata	دِيسَةَ dīsata
Genitive	دِيسَةٍ dīsatin	الدِّيسَةِ ad-dīsati	دِيسَةِ dīsati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دِيسَتَيْن dīsatayn	الدِّيسَتَيْن ad-dīsatayn	دِيسَتَيْ dīsatay
Nominative	دِيسَتَانِ dīsatāni	الدِّيسَتَانِ ad-dīsatāni	دِيسَتَا dīsatā
Accusative	دِيسَتَيْنِ dīsatayni	الدِّيسَتَيْنِ ad-dīsatayni	دِيسَتَيْ dīsatay
Genitive	دِيسَتَيْنِ dīsatayni	الدِّيسَتَيْنِ ad-dīsatayni	دِيسَتَيْ dīsatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دِيسَات dīsāt	الدِّيسَات ad-dīsāt	دِيسَات dīsāt
Nominative	دِيسَاتٌ dīsātun	الدِّيسَاتُ ad-dīsātu	دِيسَاتُ dīsātu
Accusative	دِيسَاتٍ dīsātin	الدِّيسَاتِ ad-dīsāti	دِيسَاتِ dīsāti
Genitive	دِيسَاتٍ dīsātin	الدِّيسَاتِ ad-dīsāti	دِيسَاتِ dīsāti
Plural of variety	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَدْيَاس ʔadyās	الْأَدْيَاس al-ʔadyās	أَدْيَاس ʔadyās
Nominative	أَدْيَاسٌ ʔadyāsun	الْأَدْيَاسُ al-ʔadyāsu	أَدْيَاسُ ʔadyāsu
Accusative	أَدْيَاسًا ʔadyāsan	الْأَدْيَاسَ al-ʔadyāsa	أَدْيَاسَ ʔadyāsa
Genitive	أَدْيَاسٍ ʔadyāsin	الْأَدْيَاسِ al-ʔadyāsi	أَدْيَاسِ ʔadyāsi

Quotations

• c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 669 line 6:

  ويجمع التين إذا سقط في الأرض بعد تناهي نضجه ويفرش على رتم أو ديس يابس وييبس للشمس نعما

  And the figs are collected when having fallen to the ground after having finished ripening and are spread on sere retama or rush to dry in the sun towards a more pleasurable experience.

• a. 1369, Ibn Ḵātima, “Un document nouveau sur l’arabe dialectal d’Occident au XII^e siècle = إيراد اللآل من إنشاد الضوال [ʾīrad l-laʾāl min ʾinšād aḍ-ḍawāl]”, in G. S. Colin, editor, Hespéris‎^[1], volume 12, number 1, published 1931, page 12:

  ديس — لفظ عامّيّ والعرب يسمّيه الأَسَل وهو الذي تتّخذ منه الحُصُر

  Diss is a vulgar term for what the Arabs call rush, one from which one makes mats.

Descendants

• → English: diss
• → French: diss
• → German: Diss
• → Italian: disa
• → Sicilian: disa

Further reading

• ديس – Scirpus on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• ديس – Ampelodesmos on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 491
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ديس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 481a
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ديس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 76a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ديس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 352a
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ديس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 422a

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːs/

Noun

ديس • (dēs) m (dual ديسين (dēsēn), plural ديوس (diyūs))

1. breast, boob

   Synonym: صَدِر (ṣadir)