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Coptic
Etymology
From Arabic بَبِيج (babīj), which in turn is from ⲡⲓ- (pi-) + ⲉⲡⲟⲓⲕⲓⲟⲛ (epoikion), which in turn is from Ancient Greek ἐποίκιον (epoíkion, “village, farmstead”).
Pronunciation
- (Late Bohairic) IPA(key): /bəˈbiːkʲ/
Proper noun
ⲡⲉⲃⲓϫ • (pebič) m
- (Bohairic) Babig (a town in Egypt)
References
- Carsten Peust, Konstanz (2010) Koptische Dialektologie anhand ägyptisch-arabischer Ortsnamen, Göttinger Miszellen 226, 2010, p. 88