Damascene

See also: damascene and damascène

English

Etymology 1

From Latin damascēnus.

Adjective

Damascene (comparative more Damascene, superlative most Damascene)

1. Of or relating to Damascus.

Derived terms

• Damascene conversion
• Damascene moment

Translations

of or relating to Damascus

• Arabic: دِمَشْقِيّ (dimašqiyy)
• Finnish: damaskolainen
• French: damasquin (fr)
• German: damaszenisch (de)
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• Italian: damaschino (it)
• Latin: damascēnus
• Portuguese: damasceno
• Slovak: damaský (sk), damascénsky

Noun

Damascene (plural Damascenes)

1. A person from, or an inhabitant of, Damascus.

Translations

a person from, or an inhabitant of, Damascus

• Arabic: دِمَشْقِيّ m (dimašqiyy), دِمَشْقِيّة f (dimašqiyya)
• Finnish: damaskolainen
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• French: Damascène (fr) m or f
• Portuguese: damasceno m

Etymology 2

From Latin Damascēna.

Proper noun

Damascene

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   • The Arabs in Antiquity, (Can we date this quote?): “[...] how Alexander Jannaeus, after a treaty with a king in Petra who controlled the whole area from Elat to Damascene [...]”

Translations

Translations

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• French: Damascène (fr) f
• Latin: Damascēna f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Damascene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• damasceen