Arabic

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Root
د و س (d w s)
3 terms

Pronunciation

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Verb

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دَاسَ (dāsa) I (non-past يَدُوسُ (yadūsu), verbal noun دَوْس (daws) or دِيَاس (diyās) or دِيَاسَة (diyāsa))

  1. (transitive) to tread on, to trample, to step on
    اَلْخَيْلُ تَدُوسُ ٱلْقَتْلَى بِٱلْحَوَافِرِ
    al-ḵaylu tadūsu l-qatlā bi-l-ḥawāfiri
    The horses are trampling upon the slain with the hoofs.

Conjugation

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian داس (dâs, sickle).

Noun

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داس (das)

  1. sickle, a tool having a semicircular knife, used for cutting long grass
    Synonyms: اوراق (orak), منجل (mincel)
  2. billhook, an agricultural tool with a curved end, used for pruning or cutting thick plants
    Synonym: كسكی (keski)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: das

Further reading

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Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dʾs /⁠dās⁠/), from Old Persian [Term?] (/⁠*dāça⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *dáHθra-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHtram (sickle). Compare Sanskrit दात्र (dātra).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? dās
Dari reading? dās
Iranian reading? dâs
Tajik reading? dos
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

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داس (dâs)

  1. sickle
    داس و چکشdâs-o-čakošhammer and sickle
    • c. 1649, Ṣāʾib-i Tabrīzī, “On the conquest of Qandahār and praise of Shah ʿAbbās II”, in دیوان [Dīvān]‎[4]:
      از باغ ملک سبزه بیگانه را درود
      شمشیر همچو داس شهنشاه کامکار
      az bāğ-i mulk sabza-yi bēgāna rā durūd
      šamšēr-i hamčū dās-e šahinšāh-i kāmkār
      The sickle-like sword of the emperor who achieves his will
      Has harvested foreign plants from the garden of sovereignty.
      (Classical Persian romanization)

References

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  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “داس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 78