Damash

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Damash
داماش
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Damash
Coordinates: 36°45′17″N49°48′36″E / 36.75472°N 49.81000°E / 36.75472; 49.81000 Coordinates: 36°45′17″N49°48′36″E / 36.75472°N 49.81000°E / 36.75472; 49.81000
Country Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
Province Gilan
County Rudbar
Bakhsh Amarlu
Rural District Jirandeh
Population (2006)
  Total 251
Time zone UTC+3:30 (IRST)
  Summer (DST) UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Damash (Persian : داماش, also Romanized as Dāmāsh and Dāmash; also known as Dāmāshak) [1] is a village in Jirandeh Rural District, Amarlu District, Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 251, in 89 families. [2]

Persian language Western Iranian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi, is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and considered part of Greater Iran. It is written right to left in the Persian alphabet, a modified variant of the Arabic script.

Jirandeh Rural District is a rural district (dehestan) in Amarlu District, Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,826, in 829 families. The rural district has 16 villages.

Amarlu District Bakhsh in Gilan, Iran

Amarlu District is a district (bakhsh) in Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,970, in 2,350 families. The District has one city: Jirandeh. The District has two rural districts (dehestan): Jirandeh Rural District and Kalisham Rural District. Most people of Amarlu District are Tat and they speak Tati.

Lilium ledebourii is its natural plant.

Etymology

Damasch has a same root with Domestic in English and means house, " from domus "house," la:Domus from PIE *domo-/*domu- "house, household" (cf. Skt. damah "house;" Avestan demana- "house;" Gk. domos "house," despotes "master, lord;" L. dominus "master of a household;" O.C.S. domu, Rus. dom "house;" Lith. dimstis "enclosed court, property;" O.E. timber "building, structure"), from *dem-/*dom- "build." The usual IE word for "house" (It., Sp. casa are from L. casa "cottage, hut;" Gmc. *hus is of obscure origin). The noun is 1539; domesticate is from 1639. Domestics, originally "articles of home manufacture," is attested from 1622.

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  1. Damash can be found at GEOnet Names Server , at this link , by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3059146" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
  2. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)". Islamic Republic of Iran. Archived from the original (Excel) on 2011-11-11.