Damascus

Etymology
From, from , from a form akin to 🇨🇬.

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).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Damaskus
 * Akkadian: 𒁲𒈦𒋡
 * Albanian: Damasku
 * Amharic: ደማስቆ
 * Arabic:, جَيْرُون, الشَّام
 * Egyptian Arabic: دمشق
 * Hijazi Arabic: دِمَشْق
 * North Levantine Arabic: الشام
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ
 * Hebrew: דַּרְמֶשֶׂק
 * Syriac: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: Դամասկոս
 * Assamese: ডামাস্কাছ
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Basque: Damasko
 * Belarusian: Дама́ск
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: Damask
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဒမားစကပ်မြို့
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: Димашкъ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 大馬士革
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: Дамаск
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Damaskus
 * Dhivehi: ދިމިޝްޤު
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Farefare: Damasko
 * Faroese: Damaskus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Damasco
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Δαμασκός
 * Hawaiian: Kamakeko
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दमिश्क़, दमिश्क, दिमाश्क़, डमास्कस,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Damaskus
 * Indonesian: Damaskus
 * Irish: Damaisc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: Дамашық
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ^다마스쿠스,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, Dimeşq
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ດາມາດ
 * Latin: Damascus
 * Latvian: Damaska
 * Lithuanian: Damaskas
 * Macedonian: Да́маск
 * Malay: Damsyik
 * Maltese: Damasku
 * Maore Comorian: Damasko
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Дамаск
 * Navajo: Damáskʼos
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Damaskus
 * Nynorsk: Damaskus
 * Ottoman Turkish: ⁧دمشق⁩
 * Pashto:, شام
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: Dimashq
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Damascus
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Да̀маск
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: දමස්කස්
 * Slovak: Damask
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: Dimishiq
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Damasko
 * Tajik:, Шом
 * Tamil: திமிஷ்கு
 * Tatar: Дамаск
 * Thai: ดามัสกัส
 * Turkish:, Dimaşk
 * Turkmen: Damask
 * Ukrainian: Дама́ск
 * Urdu: دَمِشْق, شام
 * Urum: Шам
 * Uyghur: دەمەشىق
 * Uzbek:, Shom
 * Vietnamese: Đa-mát
 * Welsh: Damascus
 * Yakut: Дамаскус
 * Yiddish: דמשׂק

Etymology
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Etymology
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