Hamas

See also: hamas and Hamás

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʾislāmiyya, “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 right of return.

Translations

Islamic militant organization

• Arabic: حَمَاس m (ḥamās), حَرَكَة حَمَاس f (ḥarakat ḥamās)
• Armenian: Համաս (Hamas)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈馬斯／哈马斯 (zh) (Hāmǎsī), 哈马斯 (zh) (Hāmǎsī)

• French: Hamas (fr) m
• German: Hamas (de) f
• Hebrew: חמאס m (hamas)
• Hindi: हमास (hamās)
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• Hungarian: Hamasz
• Japanese: ハマース (Hamāsu)
• Korean: 하마스 (Hamaseu)
• Persian: حماس (hamâs)
• Portuguese: Hamas m, Hamás m
• Russian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Spanish: Hamás m

Anagrams

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