Etymology
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From Latin Damascus , from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός ( Damaskós ) , from a Semitic form akin to Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק .
The etymology of the ancient name Damascus is uncertain. It is attested as Imerišú (𒀲𒋙) in Akkadian, T-m-ś-q (𓍘𓄟𓊃𓈎𓅱) in Egyptian, Dammaśq (𐡃𐡌𐡔𐡒) in Old Aramaic and Dammeśeq (דַּמֶּשֶׂק) in Biblical Hebrew. A number of Akkadian spellings are found in the Amarna letters, from the 14th century BC: Dimasqa (𒁲𒈦𒋡), Dimàsqì (𒁲𒈦𒀸𒄀), and Dimàsqa (𒁲𒈦𒀸𒋡).
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /dəˈmæskəs/ , /dəˈmɑːskəs/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Hyphenation: Da‧mas‧cus Proper noun
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Damascus
The capital city of Syria . Derived terms
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Translations
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the capital city of Syria
Afrikaans: Damaskus
Akkadian: 𒁲𒈦𒋡 ( dimasqa )
Albanian: Damasku
Amharic: ደማስቆ ( dämasḳo )
Arabic: دِمَشْق (ar) f ( dimašq ) , جَيْرُون f ( jayrūn ) , الشَّام f ( aš-šām )
Egyptian Arabic: دمشق f ( demešʔ )
Hijazi Arabic: دِمَشْق f ( dimašg )
North Levantine Arabic: الشام f ( əš-šām )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ ( darmsoq )
Hebrew: דַּרְמֶשֶׂק ( darmeseq )
Syriac: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ ( darmsūq )
Armenian: Դամասկոս (hy) ( Damaskos )
Old Armenian: Դամասկոս ( Damaskos )
Assamese: ডামাস্কাছ ( damaskas )
Azerbaijani: Dəməşq (az) , Şam (az)
Basque: Damasko
Belarusian: Дама́ск m ( Damásk )
Bengali: দামেস্ক (bn) ( damesko )
Breton: Damask m
Bulgarian: Дама́ск (bg) m ( Damásk )
Burmese: ဒမားစကပ် မြို့ ( da.ma:ca.kapmrui. )
Catalan: Damasc (ca)
Chechen: Димашкъ ( Dimašqʼ )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大馬士革 / 大马士革 ( daai6 maa5 si6 gaak3 )
Mandarin: 大馬士革 / 大马士革 (zh) ( Dàmǎshìgé )
Chuvash: Дамаск ( Damask )
Czech: Damašek (cs) m
Danish: Damaskus n
Dhivehi: ދިމިޝްޤު ( dimišqu )
Dutch: Damascus (nl) n
Egyptian: (tjmsqw )
Esperanto: Damasko (eo)
Farefare: Damasko
Faroese: Damaskus m
Finnish: Damaskos (fi)
French: Damas (fr) f
Galician: Damasco
Georgian: დამასკო (ka) ( damasḳo )
German: Damaskus (de) n
Greek: Δαμασκός (el) f ( Damaskós )
Ancient: Δαμασκός f ( Damaskós )
Hawaiian: Kamakeko
Hebrew: דַּמֶּשֶׂק (he) f ( daméseq )
Hindi: दमिश्क़ m ( damiśq ) , दमिश्क m ( damiśk ) , दिमाश्क़ m ( dimāśq ) , डमास्कस m ( ḍamāskas ) , शाम (hi) m ( śām )
Hungarian: Damaszkusz (hu)
Icelandic: Damaskus
Indonesian: Damaskus
Irish: an Damaisc f
Italian: Damasco (it) f
Japanese: ダマスカス (ja) ( Damasukasu )
Kazakh: Дамашық ( Damaşyq )
Khmer: ដាម៉ាស (km) ( daamaah )
Korean: 다마스쿠스 ( Damaseukuseu ) , 디마스끄 (ko) ( Dimaseukkeu ) ( North Korea )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دیمەشق (ckb) ( dîmeşq )
Northern Kurdish: Şam (ku) , Dimeşq
Kyrgyz: Дамаск (ky) ( Damask )
Lao: ດາມາດ ( dā māt )
Latin: Damascus f
Latvian: Damaska f
Lithuanian: Damaskas m
Macedonian: Да́маск m ( Dámask )
Malay: Damsyik
Maltese: Damasku
Maore Comorian: Damasko
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Дамаск ( Damask )
Navajo: Damáskʼos
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Damaskus
Nynorsk: Damaskus
Ottoman Turkish: دمشق ( Dimişk )
Pashto: دمشق (ps) m ( damešq ) , شام m ( šām )
Persian:
Dari: دَمِشْق (fa) ( damišq ) , شَام (fa) ( šām )
Iranian Persian: دَمِشْق (fa) ( damešğ ) , شام (fa) ( šâm )
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
Sinhalese: දමස්කස් ( damaskas )
Slovak: Damask m
Slovene: Damásk (sl) m
Somali: Dimishiq
Spanish: Damasco (es) m
Swedish: Damaskus (sv) n
Tagalog: Damasko
Tajik: Димишқ (tg) ( Dimišq ) , Шом ( Šom )
Tamil: திமிஷ்கு ( timiṣku )
Tatar: Дамаск ( Damask )
Thai: ดามัสกัส ( daa-mát-gás )
Turkish: Şam (tr) , Dimaşk
Turkmen: Damask
Ukrainian: Дама́ск m ( Damásk )
Urdu: دَمِشْق m ( damiśq ) , شام m ( śām )
Urum: Шам ( Şam )
Uyghur: دەمەشىق ( demeshiq )
Uzbek: Damashq (uz) , Shom
Vietnamese: Đa-mát
Welsh: Damascus
Yakut: Дамаскус ( Damaskus )
Yiddish: דמשׂק n ( damesek )