Etymology

shammas

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Today it means: A surname from Arabic. Full definition →

Arabic شماس
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The story

  1. Arabic · borrowed fromشماس“deacon, sexton”
  2. English todayShammas

Borrowed from Arabic شماس (šammās, “deacon, sexton”), a popular surname in the Christian community.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.