الماس

See also: ألماس

Ottoman Turkish

الماس

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian الماس (almâs, “diamond”).

Noun

الماس • (elmas)

1. diamond, a transparent and colorless mineral, that is an allotrope of carbon

Derived terms

• الماستراش (elmastıraş, “diamond-cutter”)
• الماسجی (elmascı, “diamond merchant”)
• الماسی (elmasi, “related to diamonds”)
• الماسیه (elmasiye, “jelly”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: elmas, almas
• → Bulgarian: елмаз (elmaz)

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 399
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elmas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الماس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], 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]

• (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))

1. 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)
  • Turkish: elmas, almas
  • → Bulgarian: елмаз (elmaz)
• → 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/

Noun

الماس • (almās) m (Hindi spelling अलमास)

1. diamond
2. adamant

Synonyms

• ہیرا (herā)

Related terms

• الماسی
• الماس تراش