# Damascus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin Dāmascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic form akin to Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק. Doublet of Dimashq.
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

* IPA: /dəˈmæskəs/, /dəˈmɑːskəs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: Da‧mas‧cus

### Proper noun

Damascus
* The capital city of Syria.
    Synonym: Dimashq

#### Derived terms

* Damascene
* damascus
* Damascus blade
* Damascus iron
* Damascus rose
* Damascus steel
* Damascus twist
* damask
* damson

#### Translations

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: ဒမားစကပ်မြို့ (da.ma:ca.kapmrui.)
Catalan: Damasc (ca)
Chechen: Димашкъ (Dimašqʼ)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大馬士革 / 大马士革 (daai$^6$ maa$^5$ si$^6$ gaak$^3$)
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 (damišq), شَام (šām)
Iranian Persian: دَمِشْق (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)
Telugu: దమస్కు (te) (damasku)
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) :

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch damascus, from Latin Damascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌdaːˈmɑs.kʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Da‧mas‧cus

### Proper noun

Damascus n
* Damascus (the capital city of Syria)

#### Derived terms

* Damasceen

#### Related terms

* Damasceens
* Damascener

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic source.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /daːˈmas.kus/, [d̪äːˈmäs̠kʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /daˈmas.kus/, [d̪äˈmäskus]

### Proper noun

Dāmascus f sg (genitive Dāmascī); second declension
* Damascus (an ancient city and the capital city of modern Syria)

#### Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

### References

* “Damascus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Damascus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.