Egyptian vs Binbashi - What's the difference?
egyptian | binbashi |
Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.
A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
(obsolete) A gypsy.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 457:
A major in the Turkish army.
A former rank in the Egyptian army.
As nouns the difference between egyptian and binbashi
is that egyptian is a person from egypt or of egyptian descent while binbashi is a major in the turkish army.As an adjective egyptian
is of, from, or pertaining to egypt, the egyptian people or the egyptian language.As a proper noun egyptian
is the afro-asiatic language spoken in ancient egypt.egyptian
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- The people then assembled in this barn were no other than a company of Egyptians , or, as they are vulgarly called, gypsies, and they were now celebrating the wedding of one of their society.
Derived terms
* walk like an EgyptianDerived terms
* Egyptian bean * Egyptian cotton * Egyptian cross * Egyptian darkness * Egyptian thornExternal links
*binbashi
English
(wikipedia binbashi)Alternative spellings
*bimbashiNoun
(en noun)- Bimbashi Hilary Joyce, seconded from the Royal Mallow Fusiliers, ... made his first appearance in Cairo.'' — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Debut of Bimbashi Joyce