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):

  (file)

• 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.
   • 2009 January 13, “'Never again,' says survivor”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.

   • 2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈmas/, /haˈmaːs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhamas/ (rare)

• Audio (Germany):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ha‧mas
• Rhymes: -as, -aːs, -amas

Proper noun

die Hamas f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Hamas)

1. Hamas (a militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return)

Declension

Declension of Hamas [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	die	Hamas
genitive	der	Hamas
dative	der	Hamas
accusative	die	Hamas

Derived terms

• Hamasführer
• Hamaskämpfer

 

Further reading

• “Hamas” in Duden online
• “Hamas” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Hamas m inan

1. Hamas (a militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return)

   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 (a militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return)

Turkish

Proper noun

Hamas

1. Hamas (a militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return)

Declension

Declension of Hamas

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