चमस

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə.məs/, [t͡ʃɐ.mɐs]

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चमस (camasá).

चमस • (camas) m (Urdu spelling چمس)

1. a vessel used at sacrifices for drinking the Soma, kind of flat dish or cup or ladle (generally of a square shape, made of wood and furnished with a handle)
2. a Papadum
3. a Laddu
4. the flour of the Urad bean

Learned borrowing from New Sanskrit चमस (camasa, “spoon”). Doublet of चम्मच (cammac).

चमस • (camas) m (Urdu spelling چمس)

1. a spoon

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “चमस”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha

From the root चम् (cam, “to sip, drink”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ.mɐ.sɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɐ.mɐ.s̪ɐ/

चमस • (camasá) stem, m

1. a vessel used at sacrifices for drinking the Soma, kind of flat dish or cup or ladle (generally of a square shape, made of wood and furnished with a handle)
2. the priest who manages the drinking vessel
3. name of a place of pilgrimage where the Sarasvati River is said to have burst forth
4. a cake (made of barley, rice, or lentils, ground to meal), sweetmeat, flour
   1. a Papadum
   2. a Laddu
   3. the flour of the Urad bean

Phono-semantic matching of Classical Persian چمچه (čamča).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɐ.mɐ.s̪ɐ/

चमस • (camasa) stem, m

1. (New Sanskrit) a spoon

• Monier Williams (1899) “चमस”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 388.