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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA city, the capital of the governorate of Homs, in western Syria. · A governorate in western Syria.
From a variant romanization of North Levantine Arabic حمص (Ḥumṣ), from Arabic حِمْص (ḥimṣ), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἔμεσᾰ (Émesă), ultimately from Aramaic חֲמָת (Ḥamāth, “hindrance, frustration, fortress”) + צובָא (Ṣōwḇā, “near, surrounding, station”). Doublet of Emesa.
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