مدس

Tool noun from the root د س س (d-s-s).

مِدَسّ • (midass) m (plural مِدَسَّات (midassāt)) (obsolete)

1. a kind of surgical probe, an exploring needle, employed as a trocar
   • c. 1000, أبو القاسم [Abulcasis], edited by Johannes Channing, كتاب التصريف [De chirurgia], volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1778, page 232:

     منها صورة المدسات وفي ثلاثة أنواع منها كبار ومنها أوسط ومنها صغير صغار.

     There is a picture of the probes, there are three kinds, one large, one medium, one small.

مَدَسّ • (madass) m (plural مَدَاسّ (madāss)) (obsolete)

1. a kind of dart or javelin

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably an African borrowing.”)

• أُمْدُس (ʔumdus)

مُدُس • (mudus) m (Sudan)

1. African locust tree (Parkia filicoidea) the bark of which is esteemed as a tanning agent
   • p. 1897, a. 1917, “Gifts worthy of kings: An episode in Dār Fūr-Taqalī relations”, in Lidwien Kapteijns and Jay Spaulding, editors, Sudanic Africa‎, volume 1, published 1990, pages 61–70:

     ١ سيف بلدي مفضه ببرشم فضه وتوم ومحاره وخروس فضه وكستبانه فضه مجلد مدس
     ١ حربة شلكاية كبيرة مسلكة بفضه
     ١ تركاس داخله سبعه حراب طبايق مسلكين بفضه
     ٢ كواكب مسلكين بفضه

     1 native silvered sword with hilt of silver, decorative silvern beads, nacre, silver rings, a silver pommel, and tanned leather.
     1 large long jagged spear wired in silver
     1 quiver wherein there are seven short throwing spears wired with silver
     2 spears of wide and jagged blade wired with silver