# داس
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daː.sa/

### Verb

دَاسَ • (dāsa) I (non-past يَدُوسُ (yadūsu), verbal noun دَوْس (daws) or دِيَاس (diyās) or دِيَاسَة (diyāsa))
* (transitive) to tread on, to trample, to step on
    اَلْخَيْلُ تَدُوسُ ٱلْقَتْلَى بِٱلْحَوَافِرِal-ḵaylu tadūsu l-qatlā bi-l-ḥawāfiriThe horses are trampling upon the slain with the hoofs.

#### Conjugation
## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dáHθra-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHtram (“sickle”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daːs/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | das |
داس (das)
* sickle

### References

* Hejar (1990) “داس”, in Henbane borîne‎, Tehran: Soroush, page 281
* Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “das”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 33

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian داس (dâs, “sickle”).

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* داس زرین (das-ı zerrın, “new moon”)
* داس و دلوس (das ve delus, “rubbish; rubble”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: das

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “das”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1111
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Falx”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 548
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “داس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2003
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “داس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 881

## Persian
### Etymology

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

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [dɑːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑːs]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ɑːs]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪ɔːs]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪ɒːs]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪ɔs]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

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

### References

* 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