شمس

From Proto-Semitic *śamš-.

• IPA^(key): /ʃams/

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شَمْس • (šams) f (plural شُمُوس (šumūs))

1. sun

   تُشْرِقُ ٱلشَّمْسُ كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ وَتُنِيرُ ٱلْعَالَمَ بِنُورِهَا.

   tušriqu š-šamsu kulla ṣabāḥin watunīru l-ʕālama binūrihā.

   The sun rises every morning and illuminates the world with its light.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ma.sa/

شَمَسَ • (šamasa) I (non-past يَشْمُسُ (yašmusu), verbal noun شُمُوس (šumūs) or شِمَاس (šimās))

1. to be headstrong, to be restive

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ma.sa/, /ʃa.mi.sa/

شَمَسَ • (šamasa) I (non-past يَشْمِسُ (yašmisu) or يَشْمُسُ (yašmusu), verbal noun شَمْس (šams) or شُمُوس (šumūs))
شَمِسَ • (šamisa) I (non-past يَشْمَسُ (yašmasu), verbal noun شَمَس (šamas))

1. to be sunny

• IPA^(key): /ʃam.ma.sa/

شَمَّسَ • (šammasa) II (non-past يُشَمِّسُ (yušammisu), verbal noun تَشْمِيس (tašmīs))

1. to expose to the sun, to sun-dry
2. to worship the sun
3. to perform the office of deacon
4. to frighten

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.mas/

شَمَس • (šamas) m

1. verbal noun of شَمِسَ (šamisa) (form I)

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “شمس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 450
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شمس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1269
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شمس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 555
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “شمس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شمس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 674

شمس (plural شمس-شمس or شمس۲, informal 1st possessive شمسکو, 2nd possessive شمسمو, 3rd possessive شمسڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of syamsi‎
2. Jawi spelling of syamsu‎

• IPA^(key): /ʃams/

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شمس • (šams) f (plural شموس (šmūs) or شموسة (šmūsa))

1. Alternative form of شمش (šamš)

Borrowed from Arabic شَمْس (šams).

شمس • (şems)

1. sun

   Synonyms: آفتاب (afitab), گونش (güneş)

2. sunshine

   Synonym: گونش (güneş)

• Turkish: şems

Borrowed from Arabic شَمْس (šams).

شمس • (šams)

1. sun

شمس • (šams)

1. Ash-Shams (Sura of the Quran)

From Arabic شَمْس (šams).

• IPA^(key): /ʃams/,

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شمس • (šams) f

1. sun

From Arabic شَمَّسَ (šammasa).

• IPA^(key): /ʃam.mas/,

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شمّس • (šammas) II (present بشمّس (bišammes), active participle مشمّس (mšammes))

1. (impersonal) to be sunny

   عم بتشمّس. ― ʕam bitšammis. ― It's sunny.

2. to air, to spread out to dry in the sun

   شمّسنا الفراش. ― šammasna l-frāš ― We aired the bedding.

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَمْس (šams), from Arabic شَمْس (šams).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃəms/
• Rhymes: -əms
• Hyphenation: شَمْس

شَمْس • (śams) m (formal plural شُمُوس (śumūs), Hindi spelling शम्स)

1. sun

   Synonyms: سُورَج (sūraj), آفْتاب (āftāb), خورْشِید (xorśīd), سُورِیَہ (sūriya)

• “شمس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “شمس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شمس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شمس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “شمس”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شمس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.