حامض

From Proto-Semitic *ḥāmiṣ́-. Cognate with Biblical Hebrew חֹמֶץ (ḥómɛṣ, “vinegar”).

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.midˤ/
  • (Gulf (Kuwait)) IPA^(key): /ˈħɑː.mɪðˤ/

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حَامِض • (ḥāmiḍ) (feminine حَامِضَة (ḥāmiḍa), masculine plural حَامِضُونَ (ḥāmiḍūna), feminine plural حَامِضَات (ḥāmiḍāt) or حَوَامِض (ḥawāmiḍ))

1. sour, acidic

حَامِض • (ḥāmiḍ) m (plural حَوَامِض (ḥawāmiḍ))

1. (chemistry) acid

   Synonym: حِمْض (ḥimḍ)

   Antonyms: قَاعِدَة (qāʕida), قَلَوِيّ (qalawiyy)

2. (now nonstandard) lemons or lemon juice
   • 1226, محمد بن الحسن بن محمد بن الكريم الكاتب البغدادي [Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm al-Baḡdādīy], “الذَّيْل [aḏ-ḏayl]”, in كتاب الطبيخ ومعجم المآكل الدمشقية, Hindawi Foundation, published 2018, →ISBN, page 97:

     مُتَبَّل
     يُشْوَى ٱلْبَاذِنْجَانُ وَيُقَشَّرُ وَيُدَقُّ، ثُمَّ يُصَفُّ ٱلْجَوْزُ بَعْدَ غَسْلِهِ وَيُوضَعُ فَوْقَ ٱلْبَاذِنْجَانِ مَعَ ٱلطَّحِينَةِ وَٱلْحَامِضِ وَٱلْمِلْحِ وَٱلثُّومِ.

     mutabbal
     yušwā l-bāḏinjānu wayuqaššaru wayudaqqu, ṯumma yuṣaffu l-jawzu baʕda ḡaslihi wayūḍaʕu fawqa l-bāḏinjāni maʕa ṭ-ṭaḥīnati wal-ḥāmiḍi wal-milḥi waṯ-ṯūmi.

     Mutabbal
     Eggplants are fried, julienned, pounded, then walnut rowed after washing and placed over the eggplants with ṭahīne and lemon and salt and garlic.

From Arabic حَامِض (ḥāmiḍ).

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.midˤ/

حامض • (ḥāmiḍ) m (collective, singulative حامضة f (ḥāmḍa), plural حامضات (ḥāmḍāt))

1. lemon

حامض • (ḥāmiḍ) (feminine حامضة (ḥāmḍa), masculine plural حامضين (ḥāmḍīn), feminine plural حامضات (ḥāmḍāt), elative أحمض (ʔaḥmaḍ) or حمض (ḥmaḍ))

1. sour
2. unfunny

   هاد النكتة حامضة بحال ديما. ― hād en-nukta ḥāmḍa bḥāl dīma ― This joke is unfunny as always.

Borrowed from Arabic حَامِض (ḥāmiḍ, “sour, acidic; acid”), from Proto-Semitic *ḥāmiṣ́-.

حامض • (hamız)

1. acid, sour, tart, sharp or biting to the taste, having the taste of vinegar

   Synonyms: اكشی (ekşi), ترش (turş)

حامض • (hamız) (definite accusative حامضی (hamızı), plural حامضات (hamızat))

1. (chemistry) acid, any compound capable of either donating a proton, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair

   Synonym: اكشی (ekşi)

• Turkish: hamız

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1858
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hâmız”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 383
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حامض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 494
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Acer”, 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, Vienna, column 13
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حامض”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1715
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حامض”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 757

From Arabic حَامِض (ḥāmiḍ).

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.medˤ/,

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حامض • (ḥāmeḍ) (feminine حامضة (ḥāmḍa), elative أحمض (ʾaḥmaḍ))

1. sour
2. acid

Basic tastes in South Levantine Arabic · طعم (ṭaʕm), ذوق (zōʕ) (layout · text)
حلو (ḥilu)	حامض (ḥāmeḍ)	مالح (māleḥ)	مرّ (murr)	حارّ (ḥārr)	-

حامض • (ḥāmeḍ) m (plural حوامض (ḥawāmeḍ))

1. acid

• IPA^(key): /ħaː.mudˤ/,

حامض • (ḥāmoḍ) m

1. (Galilee, uncountable) lemons

   Synonym: لمون (lamūn)

   حبّة حامض ― ḥabbet ḥāmod ― a lemon