Bohairic

English

Etymology

Calque of Arabic بُحَيْرِيّ‎ (buḥayriyy, “Of the Beheira Governate, from around Lake Mareotis”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.[1]

Proper noun

Bohairic

  1. The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE

Synonyms

References
  1. Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR
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