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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]ds
- (metrology) Symbol for decisecond, an SI unit of time equal to 10−1 seconds.
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ds
Usage notes
[edit]- Opinions vary regarding the use of apostrophes when forming the plurals of letters of the alphabet. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.
Anagrams
[edit]Egyptian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /dɛs/
- Conventional anglicization: des
Etymology 1
[edit]Speculatively, Orel and Stolbova claim a derivation from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *dac- (“flint knife”); as with other attempts at reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, academic consensus is lacking.
Noun
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m
Inflection
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[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds
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ds |
Noun
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m
- knife
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.2–1.3:
- spd dsw r th-mtn nn ḥn nj js ḥr zp.f
- Sharp are the knives against one who transgresses the path; there is no haste except at its proper time.
Inflection
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[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds
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ḏs | ||||
[Middle Kingdom] |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
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m
Inflection
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds
References
[edit]- “ds (lemma ID 180610)”, “ds (lemma ID 180620)”, and “ds (lemma ID 180600)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 485.3–487.1
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 316
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 106.
- Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 140
Juǀ'hoan
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[edit]Letter
[edit]ds (upper case Ds)
- A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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