Symbol

dsCategory:Translingual lemmas#DSCategory:Translingual symbols#DSCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#DSCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#DSCategory:Pages with entries#DSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#DS

2. (metrologyCategory:mul:Metrology#DS) Symbol for decisecond, an SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹ seconds.Category:Symbols for SI units

Noun

dsCategory:English non-lemma forms#DSCategory:English noun forms#DSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DSCategory:Pages with entries#DSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#DS

1. plural of d

Adjective

ds (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#DSCategory:English adjectives#DSCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#DSCategory:English words spelled without vowels#DSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DSCategory:Pages with entries#DSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#DS

1. (biochemistryCategory:en:Biochemistry#DS) Abbreviation of double-strandedCategory:English abbreviations#DS.

   Coordinate term: ss

Anagrams

• S&D, S. D., S.D., SD, sd

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛs/Category:Egyptian terms with IPA pronunciation#
  • Conventional anglicization: des

Etymology 1

Speculatively, Orel and Stolbova claim a derivation from a form such as Proto-AfroasiaticCategory:Egyptian terms inherited from Proto-Afroasiatic#Category:Egyptian terms derived from Proto-Afroasiatic# *dac- (“flint knife”); as with other attempts at reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, academic consensus is lacking.

Noun

 mCategory:Egyptian lemmas#Category:Egyptian nouns#Category:Egyptian entries with incorrect language header#Category:Egyptian masculine nouns#Category:Pages with entries#DSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#DS

1. flint

Inflection

Declension of ds (masculine)

singular	ds
dual	dswj
plural	dsw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds  

ds

Noun

 mCategory:Egyptian lemmas#Category:Egyptian nouns#Category:Egyptian entries with incorrect language header#Category:Egyptian masculine nouns#Category:Pages with entries#DSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#DS

1. knife
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.2–1.3:

     spd dsw r th-mtn nn ḥn nj js ḥr zp.f

     Sharp are the knives against one who transgresses the path; there is no haste except at its proper time.

     Category:Egyptian terms with quotations#

Inflection

Declension of ds (masculine)

singular	ds
dual	dswj
plural	dsw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds  

ḏs

[Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

• mds

Etymology 2

Noun

 mCategory:Egyptian lemmas#Category:Egyptian nouns#Category:Egyptian entries with incorrect language header#Category:Egyptian masculine nouns#Category:Pages with entries#DSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#DS

1. jar
2. a measure of volume used for beer

Inflection

Declension of ds (masculine)

singular	ds
dual	dswj
plural	dsw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ds  

ds	ḏs	ḏs	dsj
[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]	[Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]

References

• “ds (lemma ID 180610)”, “ds (lemma ID 180620)”, and “ds (lemma ID 180600)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 485.3–487.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 316
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 106.
• Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 140

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡tsʼ/Category:Juǀ'hoan terms with IPA pronunciation#DS

Letter

ds (upper case Ds)Category:Juǀ'hoan lemmas#DSCategory:Juǀ'hoan letters#DSCategory:Juǀ'hoan entries with incorrect language header#DSCategory:Pages with entries#DSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#DS

1. A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.