Hamas

See also: hamas and Hamás

English

Alternative forms

• Khamas (based on the Hebrew pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”). The pronunciation with /x/ is from or influenced by Hebrew חַמַאס.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /həˈmɑs/
• (US, Canada) (imitating Hebrew) IPA^(key): /xəˈmɑs/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /həˈmæs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːs, -æs

Proper noun

Hamas

2. A militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return.

Derived terms

• Hamasnik

 

Translations

Palestinian militant group

• Arabic: حَمَاس m or f (ḥamās), حَرَكَة حَمَاس f (ḥarakat ḥamās)
• Armenian: Համաս (Hamas)
• Azerbaijani: Həmas
• Belarusian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Bengali: হামাস (hamaś)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈馬斯／哈马斯 (zh) (Hāmǎsī)

• Finnish: Hamas
• French: Hamas (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰამასი (hamasi)
• German: Hamas (de) f
• Greek: Χαμάς (el) f (Chamás)
• Hebrew: חַמַאס f (hamás)
• Hindi: हमास (hamās)
• Hungarian: Hamasz, Hamász (hu)
• Indonesian: Hamas
• Japanese: ハマース (Hamāsu)
• Kazakh: Хамас (Xamas)
• Korean: 하마스 (Hamaseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hemas

• Kyrgyz: Хамас (Hamas)
• Lao: ຮາມາສ (hā māt)
• Malay: Hamas
• Pashto: حماس m (hamās)
• Persian: حَماس (hamâs)
• Polish: Hamas m
• Portuguese: Hamas m, Hamás m
• Russian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Spanish: Hamás m
• Swedish: Hamas n
• Tajik: Ҳамос (Hamos)
• Thai: ฮามาส (haa-máat)
• Turkish: Hamas (tr)
• Ukrainian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Urdu: حَماس (hamās)
• Uzbek: Hamas
• Yiddish: כאַמאַס (khamas)

Anagrams

• Maahs, Masha, amahs, asham, hamsa, hasma, masha, shama

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.mas/
• Rhymes: -amas
• Syllabification: Ha‧mas

Proper noun

Hamas m inan

1. (Islam) Hamas (Palestinian militant group)

   Synonym: Muzułmański Ruch Oporu

Declension

Declension of Hamas

	singular
nominative	Hamas
genitive	Hamasu
dative	Hamasowi
accusative	Hamas
instrumental	Hamasem
locative	Hamasie
vocative	Hamasie

Further reading

• Hamas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Hamas in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

Proper noun

Hamas n (genitive Hamas)

1. Hamas

Turkish

Proper noun

Hamas

1. Hamas

Declension

Declension of Hamas

nominative	Hamas
genitive	Hamas'ın
dative	Hamas'a
accusative	Hamas'ı
locative	Hamas'da
ablative	Hamas'dan