Pharaonic vs Egyptian - What's the difference?
pharaonic | egyptian |
of or pertaining to a pharaoh
impressively large or luxurious
tyrannical or brutally oppressive
Of or pertaining to infibulation as a means of female genital mutilation
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:
As adjectives the difference between pharaonic and egyptian
is that pharaonic is of or pertaining to a pharaoh while 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.As a proper noun egyptian is
the afro-asiatic language spoken in ancient egypt.pharaonic
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Alternative forms
* PharaonicAdjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* pharaonicallyAnagrams
*egyptian
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* (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.