hamas
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of hamas
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
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A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.
“Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.”
“[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.”
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name
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A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.
“Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.”
“[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.”
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Hamas.
“He wanted to travel to Gaza in the Palestinian territories to join HAMAS’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade in its fight against Israel.”
“HAMAS emerged in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”). A few speakers pronounce it with /x/ to imitate Hebrew חַמַאס instead.
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