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Bohairic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE

Word forms

Bohairic

Etymology

Calque of Arabic بُحَيْرِيّ (buḥayriyy, “Of the Beheira Governate, from around Lake Mareotis”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.

Synonyms

Memphitic
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