ⲧⲁⲙⲁⲥⲕⲟⲥ

Coptic

The Great Mosque of the Umayyads in Damascus

Alternative forms

• ⲇⲁⲙⲁⲥⲕⲟⲥ (damaskos) — Bohairic
• ⲇⲟⲙⲉⲥⲧⲓⲕⲟⲥ (domestikos) — Bohairic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós).

Proper noun

ⲧⲁⲙⲁⲥⲕⲟⲥ • (tamaskos)

1. Damascus (the capital of Syria)

References

• Kircher, Athanasius (1643) Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta, Romae: Hermann Scheus apud Ludouicum Grignanum, page 212
• Isḥāḳ, Emile Māher. 1975. "The phonetics and phonology of the Boḥairic dialect of Coptic and the Survival of Coptic Word in the Colloquial and Classical Arabic of Egypt and of Coptic Grammatical Constructions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic". University of Oxford