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Coptic
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμπος (kómpos).
Noun
ⲕⲟⲩⲙⲡⲟⲥ • (koumpos) m (plural ⲕⲟⲩⲙⲡⲟⲥ (koumpos))
- strap, whip
- Walter Till, Koptische Heiligen- und Martyrerlegenden. Texte, Übersetzungen und Indices herausgeben und bearbeitet, book I, in Orientalia Christiana Analecta, issue 102, Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum (1935), 36, lines 14.15.
- ⲁϥⲧⲣⲉⲩϩⲓⲟⲩⲉ ⲉϩⲟⲩⲛ ϩⲙ ⲡⲉϥϩⲟ ⲛϩⲉⲛⲕⲟⲩⲙⲡⲟⲥ ϣⲁⲛⲧⲉⲛⲉϥⲁⲣⲟⲩ ⲡⲱϭⲉ ⲛⲥⲉⲉⲣ ⲙⲟⲟⲩ
- He let them hit in his face with whips, until his pupils burst and gushed.