Φαραώ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Φαραών (Pharaṓn)
• Φαραώθης (Pharaṓthēs)
• φαραώ (pharaṓ) — alternative capitalization

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (parʿōh), from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”)”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɸa.raˈo/ → /fa.raˈo/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸa.raˈo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fa.raˈo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fa.raˈo/

Proper noun

Φαραώ • (Pharaṓ) m (indeclinable)

1. Pharaoh

Derived terms

• Φαραωνίζομαι (Pharaōnízomai)
• Φαραώνιος (Pharaṓnios)
• Φαραωνίτης (Pharaōnítēs)
• Φαραωνιτικός (Pharaōnitikós)

Descendants

• Greek: φαραώ (faraó)
• → Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法老 (fǎlǎo)

• → Coptic: ⲫⲁⲣⲁⲱ (pharaō)
• → Ge'ez: ፈርዖን (färʿon)
• → Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰𐍉 (faraō), 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰𐍉𐌽𐌹 (faraōni, dative)
• → Latin: Pharaō (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: Փարաւոն (Pʿarawon)
  • Armenian: փարավոն (pʿaravon)
• → Old Church Slavonic: фараѡ́нъ (faraónŭ), фараонъ (faraonŭ), фараосъ (faraosŭ)
  • Bulgarian: фарао́н (faraón)
  • Church Slavonic: фарао (farao)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: фара̀о̄н m

    Latin script: faràōn m

• → Old East Slavic: фараонъ (faraonŭ), фарао (farao), ѳараонъ (θaraonŭ)
  • Belarusian: фарао́н (faraón)
  • Russian: фарао́н (faraón)
  • Ukrainian: фарао́н (faraón)

Further reading

• Pape, Wilhelm; Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884), “Φαραώ”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), volume II, 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, page 1601a
• Lampe, G. W. H. (1961), “Φαραώ”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1472b
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5328 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible