عدس

Akin to Hebrew עֲדָשָׁה (ʿăḏāšā́), Ugaritic 𐎓𐎄𐎌 (ʿadašu, “lentil”), Akkadian 𒂊𒁲𒋳 (edešu, “bud, sprout”), and Arabic عَلَس (ʕalas, “emmer”). From Proto-Semitic *ʕadaš-, cognate with Proto-Central Chadic *HVdas- (“seed”), Bacama/Bata [Term?] (ḍàsì-to).

عَدَس • (ʕadas) m (collective, singulative عَدَسَة f (ʕadasa))

1. lentils

• → Swahili: adesi

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “عدس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1972.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عدس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen, page 676
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “عدس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 696

Borrowed from Arabic عَدَس (ʕadas).

عدس • ('adas) (plural عدس‌ها)

1. lentil

• عدسی ('adasi)
• عدسک ('adasak)

From Arabic عَدَس (ʕadas).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.das/, [ˈʕa.das]

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عدس • (ʕadas) m (collective, singulative عدسة f (ʕadase))

1. (uncountable) lentils

Borrowed from Classical Persian عدس ('adas), from Arabic عَدَس (ʕadas).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ə.d̪əs/

عَدَس • ('adas) f (Hindi spelling अदस)

1. lentil

   Synonym: دال (dāl)

• “عدس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عدس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.