ds

See also: Ds, DS, dS, ds., d's, D's, D.S., D. S., D/s, and ḏs

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

ds

(metrology) Symbol for decisecond, an SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹ seconds.

English edit

Noun edit

ds

plural of d

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

S&D, S. D., S.D., SD, sd

Egyptian edit

Pronunciation edit

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛs/
- Conventional anglicization: des

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Afroasiatic *dac- (“flint knife”).

Noun edit

m

flint

Inflection edit

Declension of ds (masculine)

singular	ds
dual	dswj
plural	dsw

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds

ds

Noun edit

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 edit

Declension of ds (masculine)

singular	ds
dual	dswj
plural	dsw

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds

ḏs

[Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms edit

mds

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

m

jar
a measure of volume used for beer

Inflection edit

Declension of ds (masculine)

singular	ds
dual	dswj
plural	dsw

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds

ds

ḏs

dsj

[since the Middle Kingdom]

[Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]

[since the 18th Dynasty]

References edit

“ds (lemma ID 180610)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
“ds (lemma ID 180620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
“ds (lemma ID 180600)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[3], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[4], 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 edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /d͡tsʼ/

Letter edit

ds (upper case Ds)

A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.