Hamat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حمات (hamât), from Arabic حَمَاة (ḥamāh).

Proper noun

Hamat

  1. Obsolete form of Hama
    • 1888, “Abulfeda, Ismail-ibn-Ali”, in Chambers’s Encyclopædia, page 22:
      He ruled from 1310 over the principality of Hamat in Syria, as an independent ally of the sultan, was a generous patron of literature and science, and died in 1331.
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