Etymograph

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Quds Day

Quds Day comes from Arabic الْقُدْس ‘Jerusalem, 'the Holiness'’, and goes back to مَدِينَة الْقُدْس.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمَدِينَة الْقُدْسMadīnat al-Quds‘Jerusalem, 'City of Holiness'’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentالْقُدْسal-Quds‘Jerusalem, 'the Holiness'’
  3. EnglishtodayQuds Day

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمَدِينَة الْقُدْسMadīnat al-Quds‘Jerusalem, 'City of Holiness'’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentالْقُدْسal-Quds‘Jerusalem, 'the Holiness'’
  3. EnglishtodayQuds Day

Made of the words Quds + Day

Hebrew עִיר הַקֹּדֶשׁ ‘the city of holiness’

Arabic الْقُدْس ‘Jerusalem’

English Quds

Proto-Germanic *dagaz

Proto-West Germanic *dag

Old English dæġ ‘day’

Middle English day ‘a day’

English Day

The story

Calque of Persian وز قدس coined in 1979 in opposition to Jerusalem Day, from Arabic الْقُدْس (al-Quds, “Jerusalem, 'the Holiness'”), shortened from earlier مَدِينَة الْقُدْس (Madīnat al-Quds, “Jerusalem, 'City of Holiness'”), q.v.

Every English word from Arabic مَدِينَة الْقُدْس

Today it means

name An annual protest event held at the last Friday of Ramadan in support of Palestine and the Palestinian people.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic مَدِينَة الْقُدْس / Quds Day

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