şam

damascus (the capital city of syria, an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the umayyad caliphate from 661 to 744 ce and aram-damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries bce)

"şam" is a Kurdish word that means "damascus (the capital city of syria, an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the umayyad caliphate from 661 to 744 ce and aram-damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries bce)" in English.