Hamas

See also: hamas and Hamás

English

Etymology

From Arabic حَمَاس‎ (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة‎ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʾislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”).

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Hamas

  1. A militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return.

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