English Explanatory Dictionary

Egyptian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.
noun
  1. A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
  2. A gypsy.
name
  1. The Afroasiatic language spoken (and written) in ancient Egypt
  2. The modern Egyptian Arabic language.

Pronunciation

/ɪˈd͡ʒɪpʃn̩/ /əˈd͡ʒɪpʃən/ En-us-Egyptian.ogg

Word forms

Egyptian Ægyptian Ægiptian Aegiptian Egyptians

Etymology

From Middle English Egipcien, egyptiane. Displaced Old English Egyptisċ. By surface analysis, Egypt + -ian.

Synonyms

Ancient Egyptian

Related words

Egypt Late Egyptian Middle Egyptian Old Egyptian

Derived words

anti-Egyptian Egyptian Aramaic Egyptian bean Egyptian cotton Egyptian cross Egyptian darkness Egyptianness Egyptian privet Egyptian spinach Egyptian thorn Upper Egyptian Arabic Balkan Egyptian Egyptian vulture Lower Egyptian Upper Egyptian walk like an Egyptian

Translations

Arabic: مِصْرِيَّة Arabic: مَصْرِيَّة Asturian: exipciu Bengali: মিশরীয় Bulgarian: египетски Catalan: egipcià Chinese Mandarin: 埃及語 /埃及语 Coptic: ⲁⲓⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲁⲕⲟⲛ Cornish: Ejyptek Czech: egyptština Danish: ægyptisk Dutch: Egyptisch Egyptian: r:Z1-n-km-m-t:O49 Egyptian: md-d:t*Z5-A2-Z3-km-m-niwt Finnish: egypti French: égyptien Galician: exipcio Georgian: ეგვიპტური German: Ägyptisch Greek: αιγυπτιακά Ancient Greek: Αἰγυπτιακή Hebrew: מצרית Hindi: मिसरी Hungarian: egyiptomi Icelandic: egypska Irish: Éigiptis Italian: egizio Italian: lingua egizia Japanese: エジプト語 Latin: lingua aegyptia Latin: lingua aegyptiaca Malay: bahasa Mesir Malay: Mesir Norwegian Bokmål: egyptisk Norwegian Nynorsk: egyptisk Old English: Egyptisċ Pannonian Rusyn: єгипетски Polish: egipski Portuguese: egípcio Romanian: egipteană Russian: еги́петский Serbo-Croatian: египатски језик Serbo-Croatian: ègipatskī jèzik Spanish: egipcio Swahili: Kimisri Swedish: egyptiska Swedish: fornegyptiska
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