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n. (cx in Arab countries English) A concept of virtue and honor within a family, typically relating to chastity of female family members.
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Nāmūs is the Arabic word ( Greek "νόμος") of a concept of an ethical category, a virtue, in Middle Eastern patriarchal character. Literally translated as "virtue", it is now more popularly used in a strong gender-specific context of relations within a family described in terms of honor, attention, respect/respectability, and modesty.
The concept of namus in respect to sexual integrity of family members is an ancient, exclusively cultural concept which predates Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
Namus is an ethical category of respect and honor in some Middle Eastern societies.
Namus may also refer to:
- Namus (film), a 1925 Armenian silent film
- Naimon, alternately Namus, a character in the Matter of France literature
- National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, a system of databases in the US
- Waw An Namus, a volcanic field in Libya
Namus (, meaning " honor") is a 1925 silent film by Hamo Beknazarian, based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, which denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.
Usage examples of "namus".
As he had done in the Nami offices, the Pack Rat was taping all this, avidly preserving Killan's aural history as if that would allow him to capture her like a butterfly in a bell jar.
The Imperial succession, though it had been a media event of unprecedented proportions in Japan, was of little concern to Nami, as was the new Emperor, Hirohito's son.
I suspected then that there was a relationship between the personal attack on you by the dorokusai and the imminent raid on Sato by Nami.
Well, according to the Scoundrel, once Nami got control of Sato, they would secrete the Scoundrel's MANTIS supervirus into .