দামেস্ক

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دمشق (damišq), from Arabic دِمَشْق (dimašq).

Proper noun

দামেস্ক • (dameśk)

  1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)
    Synonym: দামাস্কাস (damaskaś)

Derived terms

  • দামেস্কী (dameśki)
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