Hamas

See also: hamas and Hamás

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”).

Proper noun

Hamas

1. A militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian Arab right of return.

Translations

Palestinian militant group

• Arabic: حَمَاس m or f (ḥamās), حَرَكَة حَمَاس f (ḥarakat ḥamās)
• Armenian: Համաս (Hamas)
• Azerbaijani: Həmas
• Belarusian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Bengali: হামাস (hamaś)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈馬斯／哈马斯 (zh) (Hāmǎsī)

• Finnish: Hamas
• French: Hamas (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰამასი (hamasi)
• German: Hamas (de) f
• Greek: Χαμάς (el) f (Chamás)
• Hebrew: חַמַאס f (hamás)
• Hindi: हमास (hamās)
• Hungarian: Hamasz, Hamász (hu)
• Indonesian: Hamas
• Japanese: ハマース (Hamāsu)
• Kazakh: Хамас (Xamas)
• Korean: 하마스 (Hamaseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hemas

• Kyrgyz: Хамас (Hamas)
• Lao: ຮາມາສ (hā māt)
• Malay: Hamas
• Pashto: حماس m (hamās)
• Persian: حَماس (hamâs)
• Portuguese: Hamas m, Hamás m
• Russian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Spanish: Hamás m
• Swedish: Hamas n
• Tajik: Ҳамос (Hamos)
• Thai: ฮามาส (haamas)
• Turkish: Hamas
• Ukrainian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Urdu: حَماس (hamās)
• Uzbek: Hamas

Anagrams

• Maahs, Masha, amahs, asham, hamsa, hasma, masha, shama

Swedish

Proper noun

Hamas n (genitive Hamas)

1. Hamas

Turkish

Proper noun

Hamas

1. Hamas

Declension

Declension of Hamas

nominative	Hamas
genitive	Hamas'ın
dative	Hamas'a
accusative	Hamas'ı
locative	Hamas'da
ablative	Hamas'dan