Φαραώ

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Φαραών (Pharaṓn)
Φαραώθης (Pharaṓthēs)
φαραώ (pharaṓ) — alternative capitalization

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (parʿōh), from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”)”).

Pronunciation

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰa.raˈo/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸa.raˈo/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fa.raˈo/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fa.raˈo/

Proper noun

Φαραώ • (Pharaṓ) m (indeclinable)

Pharaoh

Derived terms

Φαραωνίζομαι (Pharaōnízomai)
Φαραώνιος (Pharaṓnios)
Φαραωνίτης (Pharaōnítēs)
Φαραωνιτικός (Pharaōnitikós)

Descendants

Greek: φαραώ (faraó)
→ Chinese:
Mandarin: 法老 (fǎlǎo)
→ Coptic: ⲫⲁⲣⲁⲱ (pharaō)
→ Ge'ez: ፈርዖን (färʿon)
→ Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰𐍉 (faraō), 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰𐍉𐌽𐌹 (faraōni, dative)
→ Latin: Pharaō (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Armenian: Փարաւոն (Pʻarawon)
- Armenian: փարավոն (pʻaravon)
→ Old Church Slavonic: фараѡ́нъ (faraónŭ), фараонъ (faraonŭ), фараосъ (faraosŭ)
- Bulgarian: фарао́н (faraón)
- Church Slavonic: фарао (farao)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: фара̀о̄н m
  
  Latin script: faràōn m
→ Old East Slavic: фараонъ (faraonŭ), фарао (farao), ѳараонъ (θaraonŭ)
- Belarusian: фарао́н (faraón)
- Russian: фарао́н (faraón)
- Ukrainian: фарао́н (faraón)

Further reading

Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “Φαραώ”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, page 1601a
Lampe, G. W. H. (1961) “Φαραώ”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1472b
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G5328 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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