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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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    At over 16,000 entries and over 1.5 million words, this monumental work remains the largest printed dictionary of Ancient Egyptian in existence. [3] [4] By 1940 work on the Wörterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache was largely complete and work concentrated on research of the word files and indexes over the next 50 years. Since then, the amount of ...

  4. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    X § Loaves and cakes: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: loaves and cakes (3) Y § Writings, games, music: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: writings-games-music (4) Z § Strokes, signs derived from Hieratic, geometrical features: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: strokes, signs derived from Hieratic, geometrical features (0) Aa § Unclassified signs

  5. Category:Ancient Egyptian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Words and phrases from the Egyptian language. This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves . Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase.

  6. 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.

  7. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian hieroglyphic writing does not normally indicate vowels, unlike cuneiform, and for that reason has been labelled by some as an abjad, i.e., an alphabet without vowels. Thus, hieroglyphic writing representing a pintail duck is read in Egyptian as sꜣ, derived from the main consonants of the Egyptian word for this duck: 's', 'ꜣ' and 't'.

  8. Gimel - Wikipedia

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    In all varieties of Arabic, cognate words will have consistent differences in pronunciation of the letter.The standard pronunciation taught outside the Arabic speaking world is an affricate [], which was the agreed-upon pronunciation by the end of the nineteenth century to recite the Qur'an.

  9. Gardiner's sign list - Wikipedia

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    Gardiner's sign list is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Gardiner lists only the common forms of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but he includes extensive subcategories, and also both vertical and horizontal forms for many hieroglyphs.