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The oldest layer of the Egyptian naming tradition is native Egyptian names. These can be either traced back to pre-Coptic stage of the language, attested in Hieroglyphic, Hieratic or Demotic texts (i.e. ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ Amoun, ⲛⲁⲃⲉⲣϩⲟ Naberho, ϩⲉⲣⲟⲩⲱϫ Herwōč, ⲧⲁⲏⲥⲓ Taēsi) or be first attested in Coptic texts and derived from purely Coptic lemmas (i.e ...
English name Coptic name Transliteration and pronunciation Etymology Arabic name Ancient Greek name Bohairic: Other dialects: Classical Bohairic: Late Bohairic: Cairo: ϯⲕⲉϣⲣⲱⲙⲓ ti-Kešrōmi: [ti.kəʃˈɾoːmi] di-Kešrōmi: [di.kəʃˈɾoːmi] From Arabic: القصر الروم, romanized: al-Qasr ar-Rum: القاهرة Helwan
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For transliteration of Bohairic names, it is recommended to use Emile Maher Ishak's PhD thesis, The phonetics and phonology of the Bohairic dialect of Coptic, which contains a comprehensive study on Bohairic Coptic completed in 1975 with the encouragement of Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, as it is widely accepted throughout the Coptic community.
Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Arab conquest of Egypt and was slowly replaced over the centuries. Coptic has no native speakers today, [6] although it remains in daily use as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church and of the Coptic Catholic Church. [5]
The English language adopted the word Copt in the 17th century from Neo-Latin Coptus, Cophtus, which derives from the Arabic collective qubṭ / qibṭ قبط "the Copts" with nisba adjective qubṭī, qibṭī قبطى, plural aqbāṭ أقباط; Also quftī, qiftī (where the Arabic /f/ reflects the historical Coptic /p/) an Arabisation of ...
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English • Coptic • Arabic Name before Patriarchate Place of Birth Notes 17 8 February 302 – 8 December 311 (9 years, 10 months) St. Peter the Seal of the Martyrs Petros • Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ • بطرس: Petros Alexandria, Egypt: He was the last martyred during The Great Persecution led by the Roman Emperors Diocletian and Galerius. 18 ...