Pharao

See also: pharao and pharaó

German

Alternative forms

• Pharaoh

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin Pharaō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Pharao m (strong, genitive Pharaos, plural Pharaonen, feminine Pharaonin)

1. (historical) pharaoh

Derived terms

• pharaonisch

Further reading

• “Pharao”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Pharao (Kartenspiel, Spiel)” in Duden online
• “Pharao (König, Titel)” in Duden online

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Egyptian pr

Egyptian ꜥꜣ

Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣbor.

Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹהbor.

Koine Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ)bor.

Latin Pharao

Borrowed from Koine Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה, borrowed from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ, from pr + ꜥꜣ.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰa.ra.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ra.o]

Proper noun

Pharaō m (genitive Pharaōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) Pharaoh
   • c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae 7.6.46:

     Dēnique Mōȳsē interpretātur sūmptus ex aquā. Invēnit eum ad rīpam flūminis expositum fīlia Pharaōnis, quem colligēns adoptāvit sibi.

     Then 'Moses' is interpreted as 'taken out of water'. The daughter of the Pharaoh found him abandoned on the bank of the river and adopted him.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Pharaō	Pharaōnēs
genitive	Pharaōnis	Pharaōnum
dative	Pharaōnī	Pharaōnibus
accusative	Pharaōnem	Pharaōnēs
ablative	Pharaōne	Pharaōnibus
vocative	Pharaō	Pharaōnēs

Descendants

Descendants

• → Asturian: faraón
• → Catalan: faraó
• → Czech: faraon, farao
• → Danish: farao
• → Dutch: farao
• → Old English: Pharao
  • Middle English: pharao, pharaon
    • English: pharaoh, Pharaoh, pharao, (archaic) pharaon
      • → Bengali: ফারাও (pharaō)
      • → Hindi: फ़ैरो (fairo)
      • → Japanese: ファラオ (farao)
      • → Korean: 파라오 (parao)
      • → Thai: ฟาโรห์ (faa-roo)
    • English: pharaon
• → Esperanto: faraono
• → French: pharaon
  • → Khmer: ផារ៉ាអុង (para'ong)
  • → Vietnamese: pha-ra-ông
• → German: Pharao
• → Hungarian: fáraó
• → Italian: faraone
• → Sicilian: faraguni
  • → Maltese: faragħun
• → Norwegian: farao
• → Occitan: faraon
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: faraó, Faraó, Faraom, Faraon, Pharaó, pharaó
  • Galician: faraón, faraó (reintegrationist)
  • Portuguese: faraó
• → Polish: faraon
• → Romanian: faraon
• → Slovak: faraón
• → Old Spanish: pharaon
  • Spanish: faraón
    • → Cebuano: paraon
    • → Tagalog: paraon
• → Swedish: farao
  • → Finnish: faarao
• → Volapük: faraon (♂♀), hifaraon (♂), jifaraon (♀)

References

• “Pharao”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Pharao”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin Pharao, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian

(pr-ꜥꜣ, “palace”, “pharaoh”).

Noun

Pharao m

1. Pharaoh (biblical character)
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þā æt nēxtan forlēt Pharao Israhela folc of his earde siðian mid miċċlum ǣhtum, and God ġesette ðone foresǣdan Moysen his folce tō heretogan, and his broðer Aaron tō sacerde; and hī lǣddon þæt folce tō ðǣre Rēadan sǣ mid miċelre fyrdinge, þæt wǣron six hund þūsenda wīgendra manna, buton wīfum and ċildum.

     Then at last Pharaoh allowed the people of Israel to leave his land with much livestock, and God appointed the aforementioned Moses as the leader of his people, and his brother Aaron as priest; and they led the people to the Red Sea with a great host, which numbered six hundred thousand warriors, not counting women and children.

Descendants

• Middle English: pharao, pharaon
  • English: pharaoh, Pharaoh, pharao, (archaic) pharaon
    • → Bengali: ফারাও (pharaō)
    • → Hindi: फ़ैरो (fairo)
    • → Japanese: ファラオ (farao)
    • → Korean: 파라오 (parao)
    • → Thai: ฟาโรห์ (faa-roo)
  • English: pharaon