English Explanatory Dictionary

Homs

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city, the capital of the governorate of Homs, in western Syria.
  2. A governorate in western Syria.

Pronunciation

hŏms /hɒms/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Homs.wav

Word forms

Homs Hems Hums

Etymology

From a variant romanization of North Levantine Arabic حمص (Ḥumṣ), from Arabic حِمْص (Ḥims), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἔμεσᾰ (Émesă), ultimately from Aramaic חֲמָת (Ḥamāth, “hindrance, frustration, fortress”) + צובָא (Ṣōwḇā, “near, surrounding, station”). Doublet of Emesa.

Synonyms

Emesa

Derived words

Homsi

Translations

Arabic: حِمْص Arabic: حمص Armenian: Հոմս Azerbaijani: Hüms Bengali: হিমস Bulgarian: Хомс Chinese Mandarin: 霍姆斯 Czech: Homs Finnish: Homs French: Homs Old French: Hames German: Homs Greek: Χομς Ancient Greek: Ἔμεσα Ancient Greek: Χέμψ Hebrew: חוֹמְס Hindi: होम्स Hungarian: Homsz Italian: Homs Japanese: ホムス Korean: 홈스 Central Kurdish: حومس Latin: Emesa Latin: Emessa Iranian Persian: حُمْص Portuguese: Homs Romanian: Homs Russian: Хомс Tajik: Ҳимс Thai: ฮอมส์ Turkish: Humus Ottoman Turkish: حمص Ukrainian: Хомс Urdu: حُمْص Uyghur: ھىمس Uzbek: Hims
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