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Pharaoh vs Negus - What's the difference?

pharaoh | negus |

As nouns the difference between pharaoh and negus

is that pharaoh is the supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty while Negus is a ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974.

As a proper noun Negus is

an English surname of unknown derivation.

pharaoh

English

(wikipedia pharaoh)

Alternative forms

* pharao

Noun

(en noun)
  • The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
  • (uncountable) The card game faro.
  • * 1945 , Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning gold
    • "I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.

    Derived terms

    * pharoah ant * pharaonic

    negus

    English

    (wikipedia Negus)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (historical) A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 240:
    • It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An English surname of unknown derivation

    • Anagrams

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