Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• ʾlmʾst' ‎(almāst)

Noun

ʾlmʾs • ‎(almās)

1. steel
2. diamond

Descendants

• Classical Syriac: ܐܠܡܣܐ ‎(ʾlmsʾ)
• Persian: الماس ‎(almâs)
  • Arabic: ألماس ‎(ʾalmās), ألماسة ‎(ʾalmāsa)
    • Swahili: almasi
  • Bashkir: алмас ‎(almas)
  • Georgian: ალმასი ‎(almasi)
    • Ossetian: алмаси ‎(almasi)
  • Kazakh: алмас ‎(almas)
  • Middle Armenian: ալմաս ‎(almas), ալմաստ ‎(almast)
    • Armenian: ալմաս ‎(almas), ալմաստ ‎(almast)
  • Russian: алма́з ‎(almáz)
    • Azeri: almaz
  • Hindustani:

    Urdu: الماس ‎(almās)

  • Kyrgyz: алмас ‎(almas)
  • Ottoman Turkish: الماس ‎(elmas)
    • Turkish: elmas, almas
  • Tatar: алмас ‎(almas), алмаз ‎(almaz)
  • Uzbek: olmos

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “almās(t)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 7
• Skok, Petar (1971), “adàmanat”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I, Zagreb: JAZU, pages 8–9
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “elmas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (1976), “elmēšu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 70