الماس
See also: ألماس
Ottoman Turkish
الماس
Derived terms
- الماستراش (elmastıraş, “diamond-cutter”)
- الماسجی (elmascı, “diamond merchant”)
- الماسی (elmasi, “related to diamonds”)
- الماسیه (elmasiye, “jelly”)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elmas”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1425
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “الماس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 140
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Adamas”, 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 18
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “الماس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 399
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elmas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الماس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian ʾlmʾs (almās); see there for further information.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔal.ˈmɑːs]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäl.mɑ́ːs]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔäl.mɑ́ːs]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔäl.mɔ́ːs]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæl.mɒ́ːs]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäl.mɔ́s]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | almās |
| Dari reading? | almās |
| Iranian reading? | almâs |
| Tajik reading? | almos |
Noun
| Dari | الماس |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | алмос |
الماس • (almâs) (plural الماس‌ها (almâs-hâ))
- diamond
- 1330, Hamdullāh-i Mustawfī, Tārīx-i Guzīda:
- الماس ... در دره‌های کوه سراندیب میباشد و از بیم افاعی درو نمیتوان رفت و بحیله و سعی طیور بیرون می‌آورند و بدین سبب پاره‌های بزرگ نمیتوان یافت.
- almās ... dar darra-hā-yi kōh-i Sarāndīb mē-bāšad wa az bīm-i afā'ī dar-ō namē-tawān raft wa ba-hīla u sa'y-i tuyūr bērūn mē-āwarand wa badīn sabab pāra-hā-yi buzurg namē-tawān yāft.
- Diamond ... is found in the valleys of mountain [groups] of Serendib, and it's not possible to go there because of the snakes, and they extract it using birds, so large pieces can not be obtained.
Descendants
- → Arabic: أَلْمَاس (ʔalmās)
- Gulf Arabic: ألماص (əlmasˤ)
- → Swahili: almasi
- → Bashkir: алмас (almas)
- → Georgian: ალმასი (almasi)
- → Bats: ალმას (almas)
- → Ossetian: алмаси (almasi)
- → Kazakh: алмас (almas)
- → Middle Armenian: ալմաս (almas), ալմաստ (almast), ալմազ (almaz), էլմաս (ēlmas)
- → Armenian: ալմաս (almas)
- → Russian: алма́з (almáz)
- → Azerbaijani: almaz
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: अलमास (almās)
- Urdu: الماس (almās)
- → Kyrgyz: алмас (almas)
- → Ottoman Turkish: الماس (elmas)
- → Southern Altai: алмаз (almaz)
- → Tatar: алмас (almas), алмаз (almaz)
- → Uzbek: olmos
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “almās(t)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 7
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian الماس (almās).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /əl.mɑːs/
Synonyms
- ہیرا (herā)
Related terms
- الماسی
- الماس تراش
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