Egypt

English

Alternative forms

• Ægypt (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French Egypte, from Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos), from Mycenaean Greek *aikupitos (see also 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (ai-ku-pi-ti-jo, “Egyptian”)), from Egyptian ḥwt kꜣ ptḥ (literally, 'The temple of the ka of Ptah', referring to Ptah's temple in the important city of Memphis), whose Late Egyptian pronunciation is reflected by Akkadian 𒄭𒆪𒌒𒋫𒀪 (ḫikuptaḫ).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.dʒɪpt/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Egypt

1. A country in North Africa. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt.
2. (historical) A civilization based around the river Nile, on its lower reaches nearer the Mediterranean.

Synonyms

• (modern country): Arab Republic of Egypt
• (civilization): Ancient Egypt, Egyptian civilization

Derived terms

• Egyptian
• gypsy

Translations

country in North Africa

• Abkhaz: Мысра (Məsrā)
• Adyghe: Мысыр (Məsər)
• Afrikaans: Egipte
• Albanian: Egjipt m, Misr m
• Amharic: ግብፅ (gəbṣ́), ምሥር (məśr)
• Arabic: مِصْر‏‎ (ar) f (miṣr), مَصْر‏‎ (ar) f (maṣr)

  Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Egyptian Arabic: مصر‏‎ f (maṣr)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَصُر‏‎ f (maṣur)

  Libyan Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Saidi Arabic: please add this translation if you can

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: מצרין‏‎ (miṣrēn)

  Syriac: ܡܨܪܝܢ‏‎ (miṣrēn)

• Armenian: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
• Asturian: Exiptu (ast)
• Azeri: Misir (az)
• Bashkir: Мысыр (Mïsïr)
• Bavarian: Ägyptn
• Beja: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: Егі́пет m (Jehípjet)
• Bengali: মিশর (miśôr), মিসর (misôr)
• Breton: Egipt
• Bulgarian: Еги́пет (bg) (Egípet)
• Burmese: အီဂျစ် (igyac)
• Catalan: Egipte (ca) m
• Chechen: Мисар (Misar)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 埃及 (oi¹ kap⁶)

  Mandarin: 埃及 (zh) (Āijí)

• Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ (kēme) (Sahidic), ⲭⲏⲙⲓ (khēmi) (Bahairic)
• Cornish: Ejyp m
• Crimean Tatar: Mısır
• Czech: Egypt (cs) m
• Danish: Egypten (da), Ægypten (da)
• Dhivehi: މިޞްރު‏‎ (mişru)
• Dutch: Egypte (nl)
• Egyptian: (kmt f), (tꜣwj m du)
• Esperanto: Egiptio (eo), Egiptujo (eo)
• Estonian: Egiptus (et)
• Faroese: Egyptaland n
• Finnish: Egypti (fi)
• French: Égypte (fr) f
• Galician: Exipto (gl) m
• Georgian: ეგვიპტე (egviṗṭe)
• German: Ägypten (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍅𐍀𐍄𐌿𐍃 m (aigwptus)
• Greek: Αίγυπτος (el) f (Aígyptos)

  Ancient: Αἴγυπτος f (Aíguptos)

• Gujarati: મિસર (misar), ઇજિપ્ત (ijipt)
• Hausa: Masar
• Hawaiian: ʻAikupika
• Hebrew: מִצְרַיִם‏‎ (he) f (mitsráyim)
• Hindi: मिस्र (hi) f (misra), इजिप्ट (ijipṭ), इजिप्त (hi) (ijipt)
• Hungarian: Egyiptom (hu)
• Icelandic: Egyptaland (is) n
• Ido: Egiptia (io)
• Indonesian: Mesir (id)
• Interlingua: Egypto
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: An Éigipt (ga) f, Poblacht Arabach na hÉigipte f
• Italian: Egitto (it) m
• Japanese: エジプト (ja) (Ejiputo) (埃及 (ja) (Ejiputo))
• Kabyle: Maṣer
• Kalenjin: Misri
• Kamba: Misri
• Kannada: ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್ (kn) (ījipṭ)
• Kazakh: Мысыр (Mısır), Египет (Egïpet)
• Khmer: អេហ៊្សីប (e zib)
• Kikuyu: Misri
• Korean: 이집트 (Ijipteu)
• Krymchak: Мысыр
• Kumyk: Мисри (Misri)
• Kurdish: Misir (ku), میسر‏‎
• Kyrgyz: Мысыр (Mısır), Эгипет (Egipet)

• Lao: ເອຢິບ ('ē yip)
• Latin: Aegyptus (la) m
• Latvian: Ēģipte (lv) f
• Lezgi: Мисри (Misri)
• Lithuanian: Egiptas (lt) m
• Luhya: Misri
• Luo: Misri
• Macedonian: Египет (mk) m (Egipet)
• Malagasy: Ejipta (mg)
• Malay: Mesir
• Malayalam: ഈജിപ്റ്റ്‌ (ījipṟṟ‌)
• Maltese: l-Eġittu
• Manx: Eajipt f
• Maori: Īhipa
• Marathi: इजिप्त (ijipt)
• Meru: Misri
• Mongolian: Мисир (Misir)
• Navajo: Ííjip
• Neapolitan: Naggitto m
• Norman: Êgypte f
• Norwegian: Egypt (no)
• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Old Church Slavonic: Єгѷптъ (Egѷptŭ)
• Old English: Ægypt
• Old Norse: Egiptaland n
• Old Persian: 𐎸𐎭𐎼𐎠𐎹 (Mudrāya)
• Oriya: ମିଶର (or) (mišôr), ଇଜିପ୍ଟ (ijipṭ)
• Ossetian: Мысыр (Mysyr), Египет (Egipet)
• Pashto: مصر‏‎ (misr)
• Persian: مصر‏‎ (fa) (mesr)
• Polish: Egipt (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Egipto (pt) m (Portugal), Egito (pt) m (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਮਿਸਰ (misar)
• Quechua: Ihiptu
• Romanian: Egipt (ro) n
• Romansch: Egipta f
• Russian: Еги́пет (ru) m (Jegípet)
• Rusyn: Еґі́пет m (Egípet)
• Sanskrit: ईजिप्तदेश (ījiptadeśa)
• Scots: Egyp
• Scottish Gaelic: An Èipheit
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Египат m

  Roman: Egipat (sh) m

• Sicilian: Eggittu m
• Sinhalese: ඊජිප්තුව (ījiptuva), මිසරය (misaraya)
• Siwa: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: Egypt (sk) m
• Slovene: Egípt (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska f

• Spanish: Egipto (es) m
• Swahili: Misri (sw)
• Swedish: Egypten (sv)
• Tagalog: Ehipto (tl)
• Tajik: Миср (tg) (Misr)
• Tamil: எகிப்து (ta) (ekiptu)
• Tatar: Мисыр (Misır)
• Telugu: ఈజిప్టు (ījipṭu)
• Thai: อียิปต์ (th) (ii-yìp), ไอยคุปต์ (ai-yá-kúp) (literary, ancient Egypt)
• Tibetan: ཨའི་ཅི (a'i ci)
• Turkish: Mısır (tr)
• Turkmen: Müsür
• Ukrainian: Єги́пет (uk) m (Jehýpet), Єґи́пет m (Jegýpet)
• Urdu: مصر‏‎ f (misr)
• Uyghur: مىسىر‏‎ (misir)
• Uzbek: Misr (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ai Cập (埃及 (vi))
• Volapük: Lägüptän (vo)
• Võro: Egüptüs
• Welsh: yr Aifft f
• Yakut: Эгиипэт (Egiipet)
• Yiddish: מצרים‏‎ (mitsrayem), עגיפּטן‏‎ (egiptn)

See also

• United Arab Republic
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Appendix:Place names in Egypt

Further reading

• Egypt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Egypt m

1. Egypt

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Egypťan
• Egypťanka

• egyptský
• egyptština

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Egypt

1. Egypt

Related terms

• egypter
• egyptisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Egypt

1. Egypt

Related terms

• egyptar
• egyptisk

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Slovak

Etymology

From Latin Aegyptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡipt/

Proper noun

Egypt m (genitive Egypta, Egyptu) declension pattern dub

1. Egypt

Declension

Declension of Egypt

	singulare tantum
nominative	Egypt
genitive	Egypta, Egyptu
dative	Egyptu
accusative	Egypt
locative	Egypte
instrumental	Egyptom

Derived terms

• Egypťan m, Egypťanka f
• egyptský
• egyptčina f
• Horný Egypt m, Dolný Egypt m

References

• Egypt in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk