pharaon
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English
Noun
pharaon (plural pharaons)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
pharaon m (plural pharaons)
- pharaoh (supreme ruler of ancient Egypt)
- (card games) faro (card game)
Descendants
- → Khmer: ផារ៉ោន (phaaraon)
Further reading
- “pharaon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Old Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin pharaō, from Ancient Greek φαραώ (pharaṓ), from Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian
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(pr-ꜥꜣ, “palace, pharaoh”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pharaon m (plural pharaones)
- pharaoh
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r. a.
- Fablat agora delant pharaon & dezidle que myo padre me coyuro. […] dixo pharaon ſub & ſotierra to padre.
- Speak now before Pharaoh and tell him that my father asked of me. Pharaoh said: "go forth and bury your father".
- Idem, f. 11r. b.
- E ſubieron cõ el todos ſos vaſallos de pharaon. los mayores de su caſa de pharaon & todos los mayores de egypto.
- And all of Pharaoh's vassals went forth with him; the elders of the house of Pharaoh and all the elders of Egypt.
- E ſubieron cõ el todos ſos vaſallos de pharaon. los mayores de su caſa de pharaon & todos los mayores de egypto.
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r. a.
Descendants
- Spanish: faraón