Damask

Damask (comparative more Damask, superlative most Damask)

1. Relating to, or originating at, the city of Damascus.

• Damask rose

• kadams

• IPA^(key): /dǎmask/
• Hyphenation: Da‧mask

Dàmask m inan (Cyrillic spelling Да̀маск)

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

Borrowed from Latin Damascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from Aramaic דרמשק (darmeśeq, “well-watered place”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdamask/

Damask m inan (genitive singular Damasku, declension pattern of dub)

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

• Damašťan / Damašťanka
• damaský, damascénsky

• “Damask”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /damáːsk/

Damȃsk m inan

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

• Damaščàn / Damaščánka
• damaščánski