See شام in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 89:",
"roman": "suy-e šâm-ast in nešân o in xabar / dar rah-e qods-aš be-bini dar gozar",
"text": "سوی شامست این نشان و این خبر / در ره قدسش ببینی در گذر",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Levant (a cultural region of Western Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)"
],
"links": [
[
"Levant",
"Levant#English:_Q81483"
],
[
"Western Asia",
"Western Asia#English"
],
[
"Mediterranean",
"Mediterranean"
],
[
"Syria",
"Syria"
],
[
"Lebanon",
"Lebanon"
],
[
"Israel",
"Israel"
],
[
"Palestine",
"Palestine"
],
[
"Jordan",
"Jordan"
],
[
"Cyprus",
"Cyprus"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English links with redundant alt parameters",
"English links with redundant wikilinks",
"fa:Ancient Near East",
"fa:Ancient settlements",
"fa:Cities in Syria",
"fa:Damascus",
"fa:Former capitals",
"fa:National capitals",
"fa:Places in Syria"
],
"glosses": [
"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)"
],
"links": [
[
"Damascus",
"Damascus#English:_Q3766"
],
[
"capital city",
"capital city"
],
[
"Syria",
"Syria#English"
],
[
"capital",
"capital"
],
[
"Umayyad Caliphate",
"w:Umayyad Caliphate"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "دمشق"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ʃɑːm]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Persian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃɑːm]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃɑːm]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃɑːm]",
"tags": [
"Kabuli"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃɔːm]",
"note": "Hazaragi"
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃɒːm]",
"tags": [
"Iran",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃɔm]",
"tags": [
"Tajik",
"formal"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"fa:شام"
],
"word": "شام"
}
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