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  2. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    sah = shah شاه shāh, from Old Persian 𐏋 χšāyaþiya (="king"), from an Old Persian verb meaning "to rule" Teherán = Tehran (تهران Tehrân, Iranian capital), from Persian words "Tah" meaning "end or bottom" and "Rân" meaning "[mountain] slope"—literally, bottom of the mountain slope.

  3. Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae - Wikipedia

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    The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae is an online dictionary and text corpus of the Egyptian language developed by the Research Centre for Primary Sources of the Ancient World at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, Germany. Intended to be a complete documentation of the Egyptian lexicon, it encompasses varied ...

  4. Gitanos - Wikipedia

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    The term gitano evolved from the word egiptano [10] ("Egyptian"), which was the Old Spanish demonym for someone from Egipto (Egypt). "Egiptano" was the regular adjective in Old Spanish for someone from Egypt, however, in Middle and Modern Spanish the irregular adjective egipcio supplanted egiptano to mean Egyptian, probably to differentiate Egyptians from Gypsies.

  5. Arabic language influence on the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    The influence of Arabic on the Spanish language is fundamentally lexical but its other influences are also briefly examined in this article. It is estimated that there are about one thousand Arabic roots [3] [4] and approximately three thousand derived words, making a total of around four thousand words [3] [5] [6] or 8% of the Spanish dictionary.

  6. Egyptian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (Egyptian Arabic: العاميه المصريه [3] [4] [5] [el.ʕæmˈmejjæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ]), or simply Masri (also Masry, lit. ' Egyptian ' ) ( مَصرى ), [ 6 ] [ 7 ] is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt .

  7. Moses (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian character of his name was recognized as such by ancient Jewish writers like Philo and Josephus. [4] Philo linked Moses's name (Ancient Greek: Μωϋσῆς, romanized: Mōysēs, lit. 'Mōusḗs') to the Egyptian word for 'water' (möu, μῶυ), in reference to his finding in the Nile and the biblical folk etymology.

  8. Diccionario de la lengua española - Wikipedia

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    The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy , with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language .

  9. Km and Km.t (Kemet) (hieroglyphs) - Wikipedia

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    The name of Egypt on the Luxor Obelisk of Ramesses II. (Egyptian: km-m-t 𓆎 𓅓 𓏏 with "City-Region" determinative '𓊖', "kmt") Starting around the 11th-12th dynasty Ancient Egypt was referred to as Kemet ('km.t' ). Many scholars theorize the word may refer to the fertile black colored soil along the banks of the Nile.