pharaoh

English

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Alternative forms

• pharao

Etymology

From Middle English pharao, from Old English, from Late Latin pharaō, from Ancient Greek φαραώ (pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian pr ˤ3 (“palace, pharaoh”), literally pr (“house”) + ˤ3 (“great, big”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfæɹəʊ/ X-SAMPA: /"fE:r@U/
• Homophone: faro

Noun

pharaoh (plural pharaohs)

1. The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
2. (uncountable) The card game faro.
   • 1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning gold

     "I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.

Derived terms

• pharoah ant
• pharaonic

Translations

supreme ruler of ancient Egypt

• Arabic: فرعون (ar) (fir3awn) m

  Egyptian Arabic: فرعون (furʕuun) m

• Armenian: փարավոն (hy) (p'aravon)
• Asturian: faraón (ast) m
• Bashkir: фирғәүен (firğäwen)
• Belarusian: фараон (be) (faraón) m
• Bulgarian: фараон (bg) (faraón) m
• Catalan: faraó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法老 (cmn) (fǎlǎo)

• Czech: faraon (cs) m, farao (cs) m
• Danish: farao (da) c
• Dutch: farao (nl) m
• Egyptian: pr ˤ3
• Esperanto: faraono (eo)
• Finnish: faarao (fi)
• French: pharaon (fr) m
• Galician: faraón m
• German: Pharao (de) m, Pharaonin (de) f
• Greek: Φαραώ (el) (Faraó) m

  Ancient Greek: Φαραώ (Pharaō)

• Hebrew: פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh) m
• Hindi: फैरो (hi) (phairō) m
• Hungarian: fáraó (hu)
• Italian: faraone (it) m
• Japanese: ファラオ王 (ja) (farao-ō), ファラオ (ja) (farao), ファラオ (fuarao)
• Khmer: ផារ៉ាអុង (km) (para ong)

• Korean: 파라오 (ko) (parao)
• Latin: pharaō (la) m
• Malay: firaun (ms)
• Maltese: Fargħun (mt) m
• Norwegian: farao (no) m
• Occitan: faraon (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: فرعون (fir’avn)
• Persian: فرعون (fa) (faraʿwn)
• Polish: faraon (pl) m
• Portuguese: faraó (pt) m
• Romanian: faraon (ro) m
• Russian: фараон (ru) (faraón) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фара̀о̄н (sh) m

  Roman: faràōn (sh) m

• Slovak: faraón (sk) m
• Spanish: faraón (es) m
• Swahili: firauni (sw)
• Swedish: farao (sv) c
• Tagalog: paro (tl)
• Thai: ฟาโรห์ (th) (faa-roh)
• Turkish: firavun (tr)
• Ukrainian: фараон (uk) (faraón) m
• Vietnamese: Pharaông (vi), Pharaon (vi)
• Volapük: (male or female) faraon (vo), (male) hifaraon (vo), (female) jifaraon (vo)