Egyptology

See also: egyptology

English

Alternative forms

• Ægyptology (obsolete)
• egyptology

Etymology

Egypto- +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌiːd͡ʒɪpˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

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Noun

Egyptology (countable and uncountable, plural Egyptologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of ancient Egypt.
2. (countable) A work concerning ancient Egypt.

Derived terms

• Egyptologist
• Egyptological

Translations

the study of ancient Egypt

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْمِصْرِيَّات (ʕilm al-miṣriyyāt)
• Azerbaijani: misirşünaslıq
• Catalan: egiptologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃及學／埃及学 (zh) (āijíxué)

• Czech: egyptologie (cs) f
• Dutch: egyptologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: egiptologio
• Finnish: egyptologia (fi)
• French: égyptologie (fr) f
• Galician: exiptoloxía f
• German: Ägyptologie (de) f
• Greek: αιγυπτιολογία (el) f (aigyptiología) (aigyptiología)
• Hungarian: egyiptológia (hu)
• Ido: egiptologio (io)
• Irish: Éigipteolaíocht f
• Italian: egittologia (it)
• Kazakh: мысыртану (mysyrtanu)
• Khmer: អេហ្សីបវិទ្យា (eeziip vityie)
• Latin: aegyptologia
• Macedonian: египтоло́гија f (egiptológija)
• Malay: kaji Mesir purba
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: egyptologi (no) m

• Persian: مصرشناسی (fa) (mesr-šenâsi)
• Polish: egiptologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: egiptologia (pt) f
• Russian: египтоло́гия (ru) f (jegiptológija)
• Slovak: egyptológia (sk) f
• Spanish: egiptología (es) f
• Swedish: egyptologi (sv) c
• Tajik: мисршиносӣ (misršinosī)
• Uzbek: misrshunoslik
• Vietnamese: Ai Cập học
• Volapük: Lägüptänav