קומיס

Borrowed from Latin comes.

• קוֹמוֹס (kómos)

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈqomes/ [ˈqoː.mes]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈkomes/ [ˈko̞.me̞s]

קוֹמֵיס • (kómes) m (plural indefinite קוֹמֵיסִין)

1. (historical) comes (an ancient Roman title)
   • a. 500 C.E., Lamentations Rabbah, 9:11:2:

     אֶתְמוֹל עֲבֵיד קוֹמֵיס קְלָטוֹר בְּפָלָטִין שֶׁל פַּרְעֹה

     Yesterday, he became a comes calator in Pharaoh’s palace

   • a. 500 C.E., Exodus Rabbah, 37:2:

     אָמַר רַבִּי לֵוִי מָשָׁל לְאוֹהֲבוֹ שֶׁל מֶלֶךְ קוֹמִיס וְרָפוּסָא, בִּקֵּשׁ לַעֲשׂוֹת סְטַרְטִיגוֹס לְאֶחָד וְהוֹדִיעַ לוֹ, אָמַר לוֹ אָחִיךָ הוּא

     Rabbi Levi said: [This is analogous] to the friend of a king, [who was] a comes and a praetor. [The king] sought to choose a strategos and informed [his friend], saying to him: ‘It [will be] your brother.’

Could be alternatively vocalized as קוֹמִיס (kómis) or קוֹמוֹס (kómos).

• Klein, Ernest (1987), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 567
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons

Borrowed from Russian кумы́с (kumýs), from a Turkic source.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kuˈmis/

קוּמִיס • (kumís) m

1. koumiss (a fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes)

• קומיס on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he