Dimashq
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic دِمَشْق (dimašq). Doublet of Damascus.
Proper noun
[edit]Dimashq
- Synonym of Damascus.
- 1971 May, Richard F. Nyrop, Beryl Lieff Benderly, William W. Cover, Susan R. MacKnight, Gordon C. McDonald, Newton B. Parker, Suzanne Teleki, “Physical Environment and Population”, in Area Handbook for Syria (DA Pam 550–47), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →LCCN, page 25:
- Between 1960 and 1970 the population of Dimashq and Halab provinces increased to more than 1.4 million and 1.3 million, respectively, and by 1970 accounted for some 44 percent of the total population.
- 2000, Alan Walmsley, “Production, exhange and regional trade in the Islamic East Mediterranean: old structures, new systems?”, in Inge Lyse Hansen, Chris Wickham, editors, The Long Eighth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand (Transformation of the Roman World; 11), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 338:
- The large number of coins from Dimashq can be attributed to Jericho’s placement in that province, yet even so the number is high considering the distance the coins had to travel.
- 2008, Joseph McElroy, “No Man’s Land”, in Fiction, number 54, New York, N.Y.: City College of New York, →ISSN, page 60:
- He had driven a white taxi from Beirut to Dimashq and when his uncle’s cousin had shown up to collect the fare at the post office by the train station, it was how things worked, which always came first.
- 2011 August 30, David D. Kirkpatrick, Rod Nordland, Alan Cowell, “Extradition of Lockerbie bomber ruled out”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que.: Postmedia Network Inc., →ISSN, page A13, column 6:
- On Monday, al-Megrahi’s brother, Abel Nasser, spoke to reporters outside the villa, in the posh Dimashq neighbourhood.
- 2017, Kirthi Jayakumar, chapter 1, in The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble, New Delhi: Readomania, →ISBN, page 18:
- Someday, my art would adorn every corner of Dimashq. Someday, there would be long rows of children learning to doodle. They could learn to doodle their alif-be-pe-te instead of wrestling with them like I did.