From Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós). Sense 1 stems from the title of Firuzabadi’s dictionary, the The Encompassing ὠκεανός, which became popular.

• IPA^(key): /qaː.muːs/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): [qaː.muːs], [ɡaː.muːs]

قَامُوس • (qāmūs) m (plural قَوَامِيس (qawāmīs))

2. dictionary, lexicon

   Synonym: مُعْجَم (muʕjam)

   قَامُوسٌ جَيْبِيٌّ ― qāmūsun jaybiyyun ― pocket dictionary

   • 2014 August 30, “جديد أكسفورد قاموس رائد”, in Al-Akhbar‎^[1]:

     يَضُمُّ ٱلْقَامُوسُ ٱلْجَدِيدُ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ 130 أَلْفَ كَلِمَةٍ وَعِبَارَةٍ

     yaḍummu l-qāmūsu l-jadīdu ʔakṯara min 130 ʔalfa kalimatin waʕibāratin

     The new dictionary covers more than 130 thousand words and expressions

3. (obsolete) ocean

   Synonyms: مُحِيط (muḥīṭ), خِضَمّ (ḵiḍamm)

• → Hausa: ƙamus
• → Malay: kamus
  • → Indonesian: kamus
• → Maranao: kamos
• → Northern Kurdish: qamûs
• → Ottoman Turkish: قاموس (kamus)
  • Turkish: kamus
• → Pashto: قاموس (qâmos)
• → Persian: قاموس (qâmus)
  • Tajik: қомус (qomus)
• → Somali: qaamuus
• → Sundanese: kamus
• → Swahili: kamusi
  • → Kikuyu: kamusi
  • → Luhya: ekamusi
  • → Meru: kamusi
• → Urdu: قاموس (qāmūs)
• → Uyghur: قامۇس (qamus)

قاموس (plural قاموس-قاموس or قاموس٢, informal 1st possessive قاموسکو, 2nd possessive قاموسمو, 3rd possessive قاموسڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of kamus‎

From Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós).

قاموس • (kamus)

1. dictionary

   Synonym: فرهنك (ferhenk)

2. ocean

   Synonyms: عمان (ummân), اقیانوس (okyanus), بحر محیط (bahr-ı muhit)

• Turkish: kamus

• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “قاموس”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1039

From Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós).

• IPA^(key): /kɑmos/

قاموس • (qāmus) m

1. (obsolete, rare) dictionary

   Synonym: وييپانګه (wëyipânga)

Borrowed from Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós).

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قاموس • (qâmus)

1. dictionary
2. ocean

Borrowed from Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɑː.muːs/

قامُوس • (qāmūs) m (Hindi spelling क़ामूस)

1. dictionary

   Synonyms: شَبْدَکوش (śabdakoś), لُغَت (luġat)

2. encyclopedia

   Synonyms: دائِرَۃُ الْمَعارِف (dāiratu l-ma'ārif), کِتابُ الْمَعارِف (kitābu l-ma'ārif), اِنْسائِیکِلوپِیڈْیا (insāīkilopīḍyā)

3. ocean

   Synonym: اُقْیانُوس (uqyānūs)

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قاموس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “قاموس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.