عمواس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Hebrew חמת (ḥammat, “hot spring”) directly or via Byzantine Greek and/or Arabic.

Proper noun

عمواس • (Amvas)

1. (historical) Emmaus (a former city in the West Bank, Palestine)

Synonyms

• نیقوپولس (Nikopolis)

References

• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Amvas”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 38