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تميس

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Arabic

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Root
م ي س (m y s)
1 term

Etymology 1

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Verb

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تَمَيَّسَ (tamayyasa) V (non-past يَتَمَيَّسُ (yatamayyasu), verbal noun تَمَيُّس (tamayyus))

  1. to strut, to walk proudly
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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Probably, like the name of ful medames, the passive participle of دَمَسَ (damasa, to bury), due to its “stamped” production, or it being covered generously with spices and oil or olives and particularly often fūl mudammas itself.

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Noun

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تَمِيس (tamīsm

  1. (Yemen, Ḥijāz) pocket bread, pita
Declension
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References

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  • Piamenta, Moshe (1991) Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 53b