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Coptic names refer to the personal names used by the Copts, the indigenous Christian inhabitants of Egypt. They reflect the intersection of Egyptian, Greek, Arab and Christian influences in the region and encompass a diverse range of naming practices, which have evolved over centuries.
The word literally means "from Ṣa‘īd" (i.e. Upper Egypt), and can also refer to a form of music originating there, [3] or to the dialect spoken by Sa‘idis. The Arabic word Ṣa‘īd, as a geographical term, means "highland, upland, plateau". [4] The suffix-i forms an adjective.
This is a list of traditional Coptic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of Egypt and the Coptic Christianity and the Coptic names given to them. Places whose names originate from the Coptic language. Places whose names were derived from the Coptic language by scholars.
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Shenouda (Egyptian Arabic: شنودة pronounced [ʃeˈnuːdæ]) is an Egyptian male name, which is commonly used among Egyptian Christians (the Copts).The name comes from Coptic: Ϣⲉⲛⲟⲩϯ (Šenoude / Šinouti ) and is a composite of the Egyptian words: še (ϣⲉ "son"), en-(ⲉⲛ "of") and Noude / Nouti (Ⲛⲟⲩϯ "God"), thus meaning the son of God.
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It is also a name of a saint that lived in the fourth century and there is a huge monastery under his name in the western desert of Egypt. It is popular in Egypt currently as a Christian name among the native Coptic population of Egypt, either first or last name and is usually a male name as first name. It is also popular in some other parts of ...
Coptic Cross on a column in the Temple of Philae Coptic liturgical inscription from Upper Egypt, dated to the fifth or sixth century Saint Mina is the most popular Coptic martyr in Egypt In the fourth and fifth centuries AD, the foundations were laid for the divergence in doctrine between the native Christian Church of the Egyptians, and that ...