# Egypt
## English
### Alternative forms

* Ægypt (archaic)
* Ægipt, Aegipt, Egipt, Egipte (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English Egipt, from Middle French Egypte, from Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (see also the Mycenaean Greek ethnonym 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (a3-ku-pi-ti-jo, “Egyptian”)), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (“Egypt; Memphis; the temple of Ptah in Memphis”, literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”), whose Late Egyptian pronunciation is reflected by Akkadian 𒄭𒆪𒌒𒋫𒀪 (ḫikuptaḫ).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈiː.d͡ʒɪpt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈi.d͡ʒɪpt/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Proper noun

Egypt
* A country in North Africa and Western Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.
* (historical) A civilization based around the river Nile, on its lower reaches nearer the Mediterranean.
* A number of places in the United States:
** A town in Craighead County, Arkansas.
** An unincorporated community in Effingham County, Georgia.
** An unincorporated community in Jordan Township, Jasper County, Indiana.
** An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
** An unincorporated community in Holmes County, Mississippi.
** An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Auglaize County, Ohio.
** An extinct town in Belmont County, Ohio.
** A census-designated place in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
** A ghost town in Leon County, Texas.
** An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas.
** An unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas.
** An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
** A former settlement in Summers County, West Virginia.
* A number of places in England:
** A tiny hamlet in Leckhampstead parish, West Berkshire, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4476).
** A suburban village in Farnham Royal parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9685).
** A suburb of Nailsworth, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST8499).
** A hamlet in Wonston parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4640).
** A hamlet near Thornton, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0933).
* A rural locality in Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia.

#### Synonyms

* (modern country): Synonyms: Arab Republic of Egypt, Masr, Misr
* (civilization): Ancient Egypt, Egyptian civilization

#### Derived terms

* Egyptian
* gypsy
* Upper Egypt

#### Descendants

* → Burmese: အီဂျစ် (igyac)
* → Chinese: 埃及 (Āijí)
** → Korean: 애굽 (Aegup)
** → Vietnamese: Ai Cập
* → Cornish: Ejyp
* → Gujarati: ઇજિપ્ત (ijipt)
* → Hindi: इजिप्ट (ijipṭ), इजिप्त (ijipt)
* → Iban: Ejip
* → Japanese: エジプト (Ejiputo)
* → Kannada: ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್ (ījipṭ)
* → Korean: 이집트 (Ijipteu)
* → Malayalam: ഈജിപ്റ്റ് (ījipṟṟ‌)
* → Maori: Īhipa
* → Marathi: इजिप्त (ijipta)
* → Navajo: Ííjip
* → Nepali: इजिप्ट (ijipṭa)
* → Odia: ଇଜିପ୍ଟ (ijipṭa)
* → Paiwan: Idjiputu
* → Thai: อียิปต์ (ii-yìp)

#### Translations

Abkhaz: Мысра (Məsra), Мсыр (Msər)
Adyghe: Мысыр (Məsər)
Afrikaans: Egipte (af)
Aghwan: 𐔴𐔲𐔼𐕢𐕜𐕒𐕚 (egipṭos)
Akan: Misrim
Akkadian: 𒆳𒈬𒀫 (māt muṣur)
Albanian: Egjipt m, Misr m
Amharic: ግብፅ (gəbṣ́), ምሥር (məśr)
Antillean Creole: Ejip f, Éjip f
Arabic: مِصْر (ar) f (miṣr)
Egyptian Arabic: مصر f (maṣr)
Gulf Arabic: مصر f (maṣir)
Hijazi Arabic: مَصُر f (maṣur)
Moroccan Arabic: مصر (miṣr)
North Levantine Arabic: مَصْر f (maṣ(ə)r)
Aragonese: Echipto
Aramaic:
Hebrew: מצרין (miṣrēn)
Syriac: ܡܨܪܝܢ (miṣrēn)
Armenian: Եգիպտոս (hy) (Egiptos)
Assamese: মিছৰ (misor)
Asturian: Exiptu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: Misir (az)
Bashkir: Мысыр (Mısır)
Basque: Egipto
Bavarian: Egyptn n, Ägyptn n, Ägypten n
Beja: مَسِر (Másir)
Belarusian: Егі́пет m (Jehípjet)
Bengali: মিশর (bn) (miśor), মিসর (miśor)
Breton: Egipt (br)
Bulgarian: Еги́пет (bg) m (Egípet)
Burmese: အီဂျစ် (igyac)
Carpathian Rusyn: Еґі́пет m (Egípet)
Catalan: Egipte (ca) m
Chechen: Мисар (Misar)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 埃及 (oi$^1$ kap$^6$)
Eastern Min: 埃及 (Ăi-gĭk)
Hakka: 埃及 (Âi-khi̍p)
Hokkien: 埃及 (Ai-ki̍p)
Mandarin: 埃及 (zh) (Āijí)
Wu: 埃及 ($^1$e-jiq / $^1$i-jiq)
Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ (kēme) (Sahidic), ⲭⲏⲙⲓ (khēmi) (Bohairic)
Cornish: Ejyp m
Corsican: Egittu m
Ajaccian: Eghjittu m
Crimean Tatar: Mısır
Czech: Egypt (cs) m
Danish: Egypten (da) n, Ægypten (da) n
Dhivehi: މިޞްރު (mişru)
Dutch: Egypte (nl) n
Egyptian: (kmt f), (tꜣwj m du)
Elamite: 𒈬𒆪𒊑𒅀 (Mudariya⁠)
Esperanto: Egiptio (eo), Egiptujo (eo)
Estonian: Egiptus (et)
Farefare: Egipto, Ezipti
Faroese: Egyptaland n
Finnish: Egypti (fi)
French: Égypte (fr) f
Galician: Exipto (gl) m
Georgian: ეგვიპტე (ka) (egviṗṭe)
German: Ägypten (de) n, Altes Ägypten n (ancient), Altägypten n (ancient)
Alemannic German: Ägypten
Greek: Αίγυπτος (el) f (Aígyptos)
Ancient: Αἴγυπτος f (Aíguptos)
Gujarati: મિસર (misar), ઇજિપ્ત (ijipt)
Haitian Creole: Ejip f
Hausa: Masar, Misira
Hawaiian: ʻAikupika
Hebrew: מִצְרַיִם (he) f (mitsráyim)
Hindi: मिस्र (hi) m (misra), इजिप्ट m (ijipṭ), इजिप्त (hi) m (ijipt), मिस्त्र (hi) m (mistra), मिसर (hi) m (misar)
Hittite: 𒈪𒄑𒊑 (mi-iz-ri /⁠mid͡zri⁠/)
Hungarian: Egyiptom (hu)
Icelandic: Egyptaland (is) n, Egiptaland n
Ido: Egiptia (io)
Indonesian: Mesir (id)
Interlingua: Egypto
Irish: An Éigipt (ga) f
Italian: Egitto (it) m
Japanese: エジプト (ja) (Ejiputo), 埃及 (ja) (Ejiputo)
Jarai: čar Êjĭp
Kabyle: Maṣer
Kalenjin: Misri
Kamba: Misri
Kannada: ಈಜಿಪ್ಟ್ (kn) (ījipṭ)
Kapampangan: Eyiptu
Kashmiri: مِسر (misr)
Kazakh: Мысыр (kk) (Mysyr)
Khmer: អេហ្ស៊ីប (km) (ʼeeziip)
Kikuyu: Misri
Korean: 이집트 (ko) (Ijipteu), 에짚트 (ko) (Ejipteu) (North Korea), 애굽(埃及) (Aegup) (dated)
Krymchak: Мысыр
Kumyk: Мисри (Misri)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: میسر (mîsr)
Northern Kurdish: Misir (ku)
Kyrgyz: Мысыр (Mısır), Эгипет (Egipet), Мисир (ky) (Misir)
Ladino: Ayifto
Lao: ເອຢິບ (ʼē yip)
Latin: Aegyptus (la) f
Latvian: Ēģipte (lv) f
Lezgi: Мисри (Misri)
Lithuanian: Egiptas (lt) m
Luhya: Misri
Luo: Misri
Macedonian: Египет (mk) m (Egipet)
Malagasy: Ejipta (mg)
Malay: Mesir (ms)
Malayalam: ഈജിപ്റ്റ് (ījipṟṟ‌)
Maltese: l-Eġittu
Manchu: ᡝᡤᡳᡦᡝᡨ (egipet)
Manx: Eajipt f
Maori: Īhipa
Maranao: Misir
Marathi: इजिप्त (ijipta)
Meru: Misri
Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭲𐭮𐭠𐭢 (agīptôs), 𐭬𐭣𐭥𐭠𐭩 (Mudrāy⁠)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Египет (mn) (Jegipet), Мисир (Misir)
Mongolian: ᠶᠧᠭᠢᠫᠧᠲ᠋ (yēgipēt), ᠮᠢᠰᠢᠷ (misir)
Navajo: Ííjip
Neapolitan: Naggitto m
Nepali: इजिप्ट (ijipṭa)
Norman: Êgypte f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Egypt (no) n
Nynorsk: Egypt (nn) n
Nubian:
Nobiin: Másser (ⲙⲁ́ⲥⲥⲉⲣ), Mísser (ⲙⲓ́ⲥⲥⲉⲣ)
Occitan: Egipte (oc) m
Odia: ମିଶର (or) (miśara), ଇଜିପ୍ଟ (ijipṭa), ମିଶର୍ (or) (miśar), ମିଶ୍ର (or) (miśra)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Єгѷптъ m (Egüptŭ)
Old English: Egypta land n
Old Norse: Egiptaland n
Old Persian: 𐎸𐎭𐎼𐎠𐎹 (mudrāya)
Ossetian: Мысыр (Mysyr), Египет (Egipet)
Ottoman Turkish: مصر (Mısır)
Paiwan: Idjiputu
Pannonian Rusyn: Єгипет m (Jehipet)
Pashto: مصر m (mesr)
Persian:
Classical Persian: مِصْر (misr)
Dari: مِصْر (misr)
Iranian Persian: مِصْر (mesr)
Plautdietsch: Äjipten n
Polish: Egipt (pl) m inan
Portuguese: Egipto (pt) m (Portugal), Egito (pt) m (Brazil)
Punjabi: ਮਿਸਰ (misar), مِصر (miṣr)
Quechua: Ihiptu
Rarotongan: ‘Aiviti
Reunionese Creole French: Ézip f
Romanian: Egipt (ro) n
Romansch: Egipta f
Russian: Еги́пет (ru) m inan (Jegípet)
Samoan: 'Aikupito
Sanskrit: ईजिप्तदेश (ījiptadeśa), मिसर (sa) m or n (misara)
Sardinian: Egittu m, Egitu m
Scots: Egyp
Scottish Gaelic: An Èipheit
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ѐгипат m, Мѝсӣр m
Roman: Ègipat (sh) m, Mìsīr (sh) m
Sicilian: Eggittu m
Sinhalese: ඊජිප්තුව (si) (ījiptuwa), මිසරය (si) (misaraya)
Siwi: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: Egypt (sk) m
Slovene: Egípt (sl) m
Somali: Masar
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska f
Spanish: Egipto (es) m
Sundanese: Mesir
Swahili: Misri (sw)
Swedish: Egypten (sv) n
Tagalog: Ehipto (tl)
Tajik: Миср (tg) (Misr)
Tamil: எகிப்து (ta) (ekiptu)
Tatar: Мисыр (Misır)
Tausug: Misil
Telugu: ఈజిప్టు (ījipṭu)
Thai: อียิปต์ (th) (ii-yìp), ไอยคุปต์ (th) (ai-yá-kúp) (literary, ancient Egypt)
Tibetan: ཨའི་ཅི (a'i ci)
Tigrinya: ግብጺ (gəbṣi)
Turkish: Mısır (tr)
Turkmen: Müsür
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎕𐎗𐎎 (mṣrm)
Ukrainian: Єги́пет (uk) m (Jehýpet), Єґи́пет m (Jegýpet)
Upper Sorbian: Egypt m (archaic)
Urdu: مِصْر m (misr)
Uyghur: مىسىر (misir)
Uzbek: Misr (uz)
Vietnamese: Ai Cập (vi) (埃及 (vi))
Volapük: Lägüptän (vo)
Võro: Egüptüs
Welsh: yr Aifft f
Yakan: Misil
Yakut: Эгиипэт (Egiipet)
Yiddish: מצרים n (mitsrayem), עגיפּטן n (egiptn)
Yoruba: Íjíbítì
Zhuang: Aehciz :

### See also

* United Arab Republic
* Appendix:Countries of the world
* Afghanistan
* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Bhutan
* Brunei
* Cambodia
* China
* Cyprus
* East Timor
* Georgia
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* North Korea
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Taiwan
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
* Yemen
* Category:Places in Egypt
* Algeria
* Angola
* Benin
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cabo Verde
* Cameroon
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Comoros
* Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Djibouti
* Egypt
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
* Ethiopia
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Namibia
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Republic of the Congo
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Africa
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Western Sahara
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

### References

* ↑ OS: Gloucestershire
* ↑ OS: Hampshire

### Further reading

* Egypt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Egypt (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech Ejipt(us), Egypt(us), from Latin Aegyptus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛɡɪpt]
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Egypt m inan (relational adjective egyptský, demonym Egypťan, female demonym Egypťanka)
* Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)

#### Derived terms

* egyptolog
* egyptologie
* egyptština

### Further reading

* “Egypt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “Egypt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “Egypt”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Proper noun

Egypt
* Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)

#### Related terms

* egypter
* egyptisk

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Proper noun

Egypt
* Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)

#### Related terms

* egyptar
* egyptisk

## Old Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈɛɡɨpt/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈɛɡipt/

### Noun

Egypt m inan
* Alternative form of Ejipt

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Egypt”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Latin Aegyptus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛɡipt/

### Proper noun

Egypt m inan (genitive singular Egypta or Egyptu)
* Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)

#### Derived terms

* Egypťan m, Egypťanka f
* egyptský
* egyptčina f
* Horný Egypt m, Dolný Egypt m

### Further reading

* “Egypt”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025