مدس

Arabic

Etymology 1

Tool noun from the root د س س (d-s-s).

Noun

مِدَسّ • (midass) m (plural مِدَسَّات (midassāt)) (obsolete)

  1. a kind of surgical probe, an exploring needle, employed as a trocar
    • c. 1000, أبو القاسم [Abulcasis], edited by Johannes Channing, كتاب التصريف [De chirurgia], volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1778, page 232:
      منها صورة المدسات وفي ثلاثة أنواع منها كبار ومنها أوسط ومنها صغير صغار.
      There is a picture of the probes, there are three kinds, one large, one medium, one small.
Declension

Noun

مَدَسّ • (madass) m (plural مَدَاسّ (madāss)) (obsolete)

  1. a kind of dart or javelin
Declension

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably an African borrowing.”)

Alternative forms

  • أُمْدُس (ʔumdus)

Noun

مُدُس • (mudus) m (Sudan)

  1. African locust tree (Parkia filicoidea) the bark of which is esteemed as a tanning agent
    • p. 1897, a. 1917, “Gifts worthy of kings: An episode in Dār Fūr-Taqalī relations”, in Lidwien Kapteijns and Jay Spaulding, editors, Sudanic Africa, volume 1, published 1990, pages 61–70:
      ١ سيف بلدي مفضه ببرشم فضه وتوم ومحاره وخروس فضه وكستبانه فضه مجلد مدس
      ١ حربة شلكاية كبيرة مسلكة بفضه
      ١ تركاس داخله سبعه حراب طبايق مسلكين بفضه
      ٢ كواكب مسلكين بفضه
      1 native silvered sword with hilt of silver, decorative silvern beads, nacre, silver rings, a silver pommel, and tanned leather.
      1 large long jagged spear wired in silver
      1 quiver wherein there are seven short throwing spears wired with silver
      2 spears of wide and jagged blade wired with silver
Declension
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