English Explanatory Dictionary

Choiak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The fourth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the fourth and last month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Choiak has been in roughly December.

Word forms

Choiak Choeac Khoiak Choiach Choïac Choïak

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χοίακ (Khoíak), from Egyptian kꜣ-ḥr-kꜣ. Compare Coptic Ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ (Khoiak).

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