Egyptian

English

Alternative forms

• Ægyptian (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈdʒɪp.ʃən/

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Adjective

Egyptian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Egypt

• Afrikaans: Egipties
• Arabic: مِصْرِيّ (míSriyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: مَصْرِي (maSrii)

• Armenian: եգիպտական (egiptakan), եգիպտոսյան (egiptosyan)
• Catalan: egipci
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃及的 (zh) (Āijí de)

• Czech: egyptský (cs) m
• Danish: egyptisk
• Dutch: Egyptisch (nl)
• Esperanto: egipta
• Finnish: egyptiläinen (fi)
• French: égyptien (fr)
• Galician: exipcio m
• German: ägyptisch (de)
• Greek: αιγυπτιακός (el) (aigyptiakós)
• Hawaiian: ʻAikupika
• Hungarian: egyiptomi (hu)
• Icelandic: egypskur

• Italian: egiziano (it)
• Malay: Mesir
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: egyptisk

  Nynorsk: egyptisk (nn)

• Old Norse: egipzkr
• Polish: egipski (pl) m
• Portuguese: egípcio (pt)
• Romanian: egiptean (ro) m
• Russian: египетский (ru) (egípetskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѐгипатскӣ

  Roman: ègipatskī

• Spanish: egipcio (es)
• Swahili: Kimisri
• Swedish: egyptisk (sv)
• Tajik: мисрӣ (misrī)
• Volapük: Lägüptänik (vo)

of, from, or pertaining to Egyptians

• Afrikaans: Egipties
• Armenian: եգիպտական (egiptakan)
• Catalan: egipci
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃及的 (zh) (Āijí de)

• Dutch: Egyptisch (nl)
• Esperanto: egipta
• Finnish: egyptiläinen (fi)
• French: égyptien (fr)
• German: ägyptisch (de)
• Greek: αιγυπτιακός (el) (aigyptiakós)
• Hawaiian: ʻAikupika
• Hungarian: egyiptomi (hu)
• Icelandic: egypskur
• Malay: orang Mesir, Mesir

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: egyptisk

  Nynorsk: egyptisk (nn)

• Polish: egipski (pl) m
• Portuguese: egípcio (pt)
• Russian: египетский (ru) (egípetskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: египћански

  Roman: egipćanski

• Spanish: egipcio (es)
• Swedish: egyptisk (sv)
• Tajik: мисрӣ (misrī)
• Volapük: (♂♀) Lägüptänanik, (♂) hi-Lägüptänanik, (♀) ji-Lägüptänanik

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• Arabic: مِصْريّ (miSrii)

  Egyptian Arabic: مصري (maSrii)

• Galician: exipcio

Noun

Egyptian (plural Egyptians)

1. A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
2. (obsolete) A gypsy.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 457:

     The people then assembled in this barn were no other than a company of Egyptians, or, as they are vulgarly called, gypsies, and they were now celebrating the wedding of one of their society.

Derived terms

• walk like an Egyptian

Translations

person from Egypt

• Afrikaans: Egiptenaar, Egiptenare pl
• Arabic: مصري (míSriy, máSriy), مصرية f (miSríyya, maSríyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: مصرى (máSri)

• Armenian: եգիպտոսցի (egiptoscʿi)
• Catalan: egipci m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃及人 (zh) (Āijírén)

• Czech: Egypťan (cs) m
• Dutch: Egyptenaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: egipto
• Finnish: egyptiläinen (fi)
• French: Égyptien (fr), Égyptienne (fr), Egyptien m, Egyptienne
• Galician: exipcio m
• German: Ägypter (de) m, Ägypterin (de) f
• Greek: Αιγύπτιος (el) m (Aigýptios), Αιγύπτια (el) f (Aigýptia)
• Hawaiian: ʻAikupika
• Hebrew: מצרי (mitsri)
• Hungarian: egyiptomi (hu)
• Italian: egiziano (it) m, egiziaco m

• Japanese: エジプト人 (Ejiputo-jin)
• Korean: 이집트 사람 (ijipteu saram)
• Malay: orang Mesir, orang Mesir, Mesir
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: egypter m

  Nynorsk: egyptar (nn) m

• Polish: Egipcjanin (pl) m, Egipcjanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: egípcio (pt)
• Russian: египтянин (ru) m (jegiptjánin), египтянка (ru) f (jegiptjánka)
• Serbo-Croatian: Ѐгипћанин m, Египћанка f

  Roman: Ègipćanin m, Ègipćānka f

• Slovak: Egypťan m, Egypťanka f
• Spanish: egipcio (es) m, egipcia f
• Swahili: Mmisri (sw)
• Swedish: egyptier (sv) m, egyptiska (sv) f
• Turkish: Mısırlı (tr)
• Vietnamese: người Ai Cập
• Volapük: (♂♀) Lägüptänan (vo), (♂) hi-Lägüptänan, (♀) ji-Lägüptänan

Proper noun

Egyptian

1. The Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.

Translations

language

• Arabic: مصرية f (miSríyya, maSríyya)
• Catalan: egipci m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃及語 (zh), 埃及语 (Āijíyǔ)

• Czech: egyptština (cs) f
• Dutch: Egyptisch (nl) n
• Egyptian: 𓂋𓏤𓈖𓈎𓅓𓏏𓊖 (r n qm.t)
• Finnish: egypti
• French: égyptien (fr) m
• German: Ägyptisch (de) n
• Hebrew: מצרית (mitsrit)
• Hungarian: egyiptomi (hu)
• Icelandic: egypska f
• Japanese: エジプト語 (Ejiputo-go)

• Malay: bahasa Mesir, Mesir
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: egyptisk m

  Nynorsk: egyptisk (nn) m

• Polish: egipski (pl)
• Portuguese: egípcio (pt) m
• Russian: египетский (ru) (jegipetskij) (jegípetskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: египатски језик m

  Roman: ègipatskī jèzik m

• Spanish: egipcio (es) m
• Swahili: Kimisri
• Vietnamese: tiếng Ai Cập
• Volapük: Lägüptänapük, (ancient) Vöna-Lägüptänapük

Derived terms

• Egyptian bean
• Egyptian cotton
• Egyptian cross
• Egyptian darkness
• Egyptian thorn

Related terms

• Egypt

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Egyptian, egy