امس

See also: آمس‎, أمس‎, أمش‎, and امش‎

Malay

Chemical element
Au
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [əmas]
Rhymes: -əmas, -mas, -as

Noun

امس (Rumi spelling emas)

gold (element)

Synonyms

aurum / اءوروم‎
kencana / کنچان‎

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمْس‎ (ʔams).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔams]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäms]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäms]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäms]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæms]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäms]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ams
Dari reading^?	ams
Iranian reading^?	ams
Tajik reading^?	ams

Noun

امس • (ams)

(obsolete, literary) yesterday
Synonyms: دیروز‎‎ (diruz), دی‎ (di)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 119:
  ‏خود غریبی در جهان چون شمس نیست
  شمس جان باقیی کش امس نیست‌‌‎
  xwad ğarībē dar jahān čōn šams nēst
  šams-i jān-i bāqīyē k-aš ams nēst
  There is nothing in the world so wondrous strange as the Sun, the everlasting spiritual Sun which hath no yesterday.

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