Amos

From Biblical Hebrew עמוס (Amos, “to carry; a burden”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.məs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪməs

Amos

1. A male given name from Hebrew.
3. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
5. (biblical) A prophet, author of the book of Amos.
6. A surname.
   • 2021 May 12, Emily Cochrane, “In Infrastructure Talks With Biden, Capito Faces Fraught Path to Deal”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 August 2021:

     Children playing basketball at their home in front of the John Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, W.Va. President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes climate change measures that aim to close coal-fired plants.

7. A town in Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
8. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.
   2. An unincorporated community in Vernon County, Missouri.
   3. An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, Nevada.

• -omas, MOAS, MOAs, Samo, SoMa, Soma, maos, moas, omas, soam, soma

Amos m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• Amos's son: Amosson or Amosson
• Amos's daughter: Amosardóttir or Amosdóttir

The city is named after Alice Gouin (né Amos; 1868–1940), the wife of prime minister of Québec Lomer Gouin (1861–1929).

• IPA^(key): /a.mɔs/

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Amos m

1. (biblical) Amos
2. a city in Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada

• Amossois, Amossoise

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Amos m (proper noun, strong, genitive Amos')

1. Amos
2. the book of Amos

Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew עמוס (Amos, “to carry; a burden”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈamos/ [ˈa.mɔs]
• Rhymes: -amos
• Syllabification: A‧mos

Amos

1. (Christianity) Amos
   2. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh
   4. (biblical) A prophet, author of the book of Amos

• “Amos”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Possibly from Biblical Hebrew עמוס (Amos, “to carry; a burden”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mos/^[1]
• Rhymes: -amos
• Hyphenation: À‧mos

Amos m

1. (religion) Amos
2. book of Amos
3. a male given name

• -soma, Mosa, Samo, maso, soma

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈamos/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈamos/

Amos m pers

1. a male given name

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “Amos”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Amos m (genitive Amois)

1. (biblical) Amos
2. (biblical) Amos, the thirtieth book of the Old Testament

Possibly from Hebrew עמוס (Amos, “to carry; a burden”).

Amos m pers

1. (religion) Amos

Amos

1. Amos (biblical book and prophet)

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Am

Borrowed from Spanish Amós, from Latin Amos, from Biblical Hebrew עמוס (Amos, “to carry; a burden”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmos/ [ʔɐˈmos]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: A‧mos

Amós (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜓᜐ᜔) (religion)

1. Amos

• samo, maso

• IPA^(key): /ˈamɔs/

Amos m (not mutable)

1. a male given name from Hebrew עָמוֹס (“to carry a burden”), equivalent to English Amos
2. (biblical) A prophet, author of the Book of Amos
3. (biblical) The Book of Amos

Heini Gruffudd (2010), Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children‎^[2], Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 15