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Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قاموس (qāmūs), from Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós).
It came to be used as a word for dictionary in arabic after a lexicon published named Al-qamus (see: w:Firuzabadi)
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /qɑː.muːs/, , /kɑː.muːs/,
Noun
क़ामूस • (qāmūs) m (Urdu spelling قاموس)
- ocean
- dictionary
- Synonyms: शब्दकोष (śabdakoṣ), लुग़ात (luġāt), मो'जम (mo'jam)
References
- “क़ामूस”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “قاموس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قاموس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.