ⲡⲉⲧⲉⲫⲣⲏ

Coptic

Etymology

From Demotic pꜣ-dj-pꜣ-rꜥ (he whom Ra has given).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (reconstructed Classical Coptic) /pəˌtəpʰˈɾeːʔ/

Proper noun

ⲡⲉⲧⲉⲫⲣⲏ • (petephrē) m

1. Potiphar, a male given name
2. (biblical) An Egyptian and captain of the guard under Pharaoh.

Descendants

• → Biblical Hebrew: פוטיפר (potifár)
  • → Arabic: فوطِفار (futifar)
• → Ancient Greek: Πετεφρή (Petephrḗ)
• → Arabic: بادبرا (badabra)

References

• Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN
• Isḥāḳ, Emile Māher. 1975. "The phonetics and phonology of the Boḥairic dialect of Coptic and the Survival of Coptic Word in the Colloquial and Classical Arabic of Egypt and of Coptic Grammatical Constructions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic". University of Oxford, p.451