"Şam" meaning in Northern Kurdish

See Şam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Arabic اَلشَّام (aš-šām). Etymology templates: {{bor|kmr|ar|اَلشَّام}} Arabic اَلشَّام (aš-šām) Head templates: {{kmr-proper noun}} Şam ?
  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) Categories (place): Cities in Syria, Places in Syria
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Northern Kurdish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (85b9f46 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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