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Egyptian vs Maat - What's the difference?

egyptian | maat |

As proper nouns the difference between egyptian and maat

is that egyptian is the afro-asiatic language spoken in ancient egypt while maat is an ancient egyptian goddess, the personification of truth, order, and righteousness, symbolized by a feather.

As an adjective egyptian

is of, from, or pertaining to egypt, the egyptian people or the egyptian language.

As a noun egyptian

is a person from egypt or of egyptian descent.

egyptian

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
  • (obsolete) A gypsy.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 457:
    • 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 Egyptian

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.

    • Derived terms

    * Egyptian bean * Egyptian cotton * Egyptian cross * Egyptian darkness * Egyptian thorn

    Related terms

    * Egypt

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    maat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
  • * 2007 , William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing (page 226)
    • A lot of my maats went west.
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