Damascus

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Damascus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic form akin to Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəˈmæskəs/, /dəˈmɑːskəs/
• 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
• Arabic: دِمَشْق (ar) m (dimašq), جَيْرُون f (jayrūn), الشَّام m (aš-šām)

  Egyptian Arabic: دمشق f (demešʾ)

  North Levantine Arabic: الشام f (eš-šām)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ

  Hebrew: דַּרְמֶשֶׂק (darmeseq)

  Syriac: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ (darmsūq)

• Armenian: Դամասկոս (hy) (Damaskos)

  Old Armenian: Դամասկոս (Damaskos)

• Azerbaijani: Dəməşq (az)
• Basque: Damasko
• Belarusian: Дама́ск m (Damásk)
• Bengali: দামেস্ক (damesko)
• Breton: Damask m
• Bulgarian: Дама́ск (bg) m (Damásk)
• Catalan: Damasc (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大馬士革／大马士革 (zh) (Dàmǎshìgé), 大马士革 (zh) (Dàmǎshìgé)

• Chuvash: Дамаск (Damask)
• Czech: Damašek (cs) m
• Danish: Damaskus
• Dutch: Damascus (nl)
• Egyptian: (tjmsqw)
• Esperanto: Damasko (eo)
• Faroese: Damaskus m
• Finnish: Damaskos (fi)
• French: Damas (fr) m
• Galician: Damasco
• Georgian: დამასკო (damasḳo)
• German: Damaskus (de) n
• Greek: Δαμασκός (el) f (Damaskós)

  Ancient: Δαμασκός f (Damaskós)

• Hawaiian: Kamakeko
• Hebrew: דַּמֶּשֶׂק f (daméseq)
• Hindi: दमिश्क़ (damiśq), दमिश्क (damiśk), दिमाश्क़ (dimāśq), डमास्कस m (ḍamāskas), शाम (hi) m (śām)
• Hungarian: Damaszkusz (hu)
• Indonesian: Damaskus
• Irish: an Damaisc f
• Italian: Damasco (it)
• Japanese: ダマスカス (Damasukasu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kazakh: Дамаск (Damask)
• Korean: 다마스쿠스 (Damaseukuseu)
• Kurdish:
• Lao: ດາມາດ (dā māt)
• Latin: Damascus f
• Latvian: Damaska
• Lithuanian: Damaskas
• Macedonian: Дама́ск m (Damásk)
• Malay: Damsyik
• Maltese: Damasku
• Maore Comorian: Damasko
• Mongolian: Дамаск (Damask)
• Navajo: Damáskʼos
• Norwegian: Damaskus
• Persian: دمشق (fa) (damešq)
• 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

• Slovak: Damask m
• Slovene: Damásk (sl) m
• Somali: Dimishiq
• Spanish: Damasco (es) m
• Swedish: Damaskus (sv)
• Tagalog: Damasko
• Tajik: Димишқ (tg) (Dimišq)
• Tatar: Дамаск (Damask)
• Thai: ดามัสกัส (daa-mát-gàt)
• Turkish: Şam (tr)
• Turkmen: Damask
• Ukrainian: Дама́ск m (Damásk)
• Urdu: دمشق (damiśq, demeśq, dimaśq)
• Urum: Шам (Şam)
• Uyghur: دەمەشىق (demeshiq)
• Uzbek: Damashq
• Welsh: Damascus
• Yakut: Дамаскус (Damaskus)
• Yiddish: דמשׂק (damesek)

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Proper noun

Damascus n

1. Damascus, the capital city of Syria

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Latin

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Dāmascus f sg (genitive Dāmascī); second declension

1. Damascus (an ancient city, the capital 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.