ⲙⲟⲗⲟⲭ

Coptic

Mars

Etymology

From Demotic mlẖ. The orthography is influenced by Μολόχ (Molókh, “Moloch, a god of Moabites and Ammonites”). Vycichl reconstructs the proper Coptic from as *ⲙⲁⲗⲱϧ (*malōx).

Proper noun

ⲙⲟⲗⲟⲭ • (molokh) m

(Bohairic) the planet Mars.
(Bohairic) the god Moloch.

References

Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 111

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