Hamas

See also: hamas and Hamás

English

Alternative forms

• Khamas (based on the Hebrew pronunciation)
• HAMAS

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة الْمُقَاوَمَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”).

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /həˈmɑs/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /həˈmæs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːs, -æs

A few speakers replace /h/ with /x/ in this name to imitate the organization's Hebrew name חַמַאס.

Proper noun

Hamas

2. A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.
   • 2009 January 13, “'Never again,' says survivor”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.

   • 2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.

Derived terms

• Hamasite
• Hamasnik
• Hamastan

Translations

Palestinian militant group

• Arabic: حَمَاس m or f (ḥamās), حَرَكَة حَمَاس f (ḥarakat ḥamās)
• Armenian: Համաս (Hamas)
• Azerbaijani: Həmas
• Belarusian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Bengali: হামাস (hamaś)
• Catalan: Hamàs m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈馬斯 / 哈马斯 (zh) (Hāmǎsī)

• Finnish: Hamas
• French: Hamas (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰამასი (hamasi)
• German: Hamas (de) f
• Greek: Χαμάς (el) f (Chamás)
• Hebrew: חַמַאס f (hamás)
• Hindi: हमास (hamās)
• Hungarian: Hamasz, Hamász (hu)
• Indonesian: Hamas
• Japanese: ハマース (Hamāsu)
• Kazakh: Хамас (Xamas)
• Korean: 하마스 (Hamaseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hemas

• Kyrgyz: Хамас (Hamas)
• Lao: ຮາມາສ (hā mās)
• Malay: Hamas
• Pashto: حماس m (hamās)
• Persian: حَماس (hamâs)
• Polish: Hamas m
• Portuguese: Hamas m, Hamás m
• Russian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Spanish: Hamás m
• Swedish: Hamas n
• Tajik: Ҳамос (Hamos)
• Thai: ฮามาส (haa-máat)
• Turkish: Hamas (tr)
• Ukrainian: Хама́с m (Xamás)
• Urdu: حَماس (hamās)
• Uzbek: Hamas
• Yiddish: כאַמאַס (khamas)

Anagrams

• Maahs, Masha, amahs, asham, hamsa, hasma, masha, shama

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈmas/, /haˈmaːs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhamas/ (rare)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Ha‧mas
• Rhymes: -as, -aːs, -amas

Proper noun

die Hamas f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Hamas)

1. Hamas (a Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization)

Declension

Declension of Hamas [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	die	Hamas
genitive	der	Hamas
dative	der	Hamas
accusative	die	Hamas

Derived terms

• Hamasführer
• Hamaskämpfer

Further reading

• “Hamas” in Duden online
• “Hamas” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.mas/
• Rhymes: -amas
• Syllabification: Ha‧mas

Proper noun

Hamas m inan

1. Hamas (a Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization)

   Synonym: Muzułmański Ruch Oporu

Declension

Declension of Hamas

	singular
nominative	Hamas
genitive	Hamasu
dative	Hamasowi
accusative	Hamas
instrumental	Hamasem
locative	Hamasie
vocative	Hamasie

Further reading

• “Hamas”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Hamas in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xǎmas/, /xamâs/
• Hyphenation: Ha‧mas

Proper noun

Hàmas or Hamȁs m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ха̀мас or Хама̏с)

1. Hamas (a Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization)

Declension

Declension of Hàmas

	singular
nominative	Hàmas
genitive	Hàmasa
dative	Hàmasu
accusative	Hàmas
vocative	Hàmas
locative	Hàmasu
instrumental	Hàmasom

Declension of Hamȁs

	singular
nominative	Hamȁs
genitive	Hamȁsa
dative	Hamȁsu
accusative	Hamȁs
vocative	Hamȁs
locative	Hamȁsu
instrumental	Hamȁsom

References

• “Hamas”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Proper noun

Hamas n (genitive Hamas)

1. Hamas (a Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization)

Turkish

Proper noun

Hamas

1. Hamas (a Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization)

Declension

Declension of Hamas

	singular	plural
nominative	Hamas	Hamaslar / Hamas'lar
definite accusative	Hamas'ı	Hamasları / Hamas'ları
dative	Hamas'a	Hamaslara / Hamas'lara
locative	Hamas'ta	Hamaslarda / Hamas'larda
ablative	Hamas'tan	Hamaslardan / Hamas'lardan
genitive	Hamas'ın	Hamasların / Hamas'ların

Possessive forms of Hamas

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Hamas'ım	Hamaslarım
senin (your)	Hamas'ın	Hamasların
onun (his/her/its)	Hamas'ı	Hamasları
bizim (our)	Hamas'ımız	Hamaslarımız
sizin (your)	Hamas'ınız	Hamaslarınız
onların (their)	Hamas'ı Hamasları	Hamasları