Tutankhamun , a pharaoh
pharao ( the supreme ruler of ancient Egypt )
Pharaoh ( the supreme ruler of ancient Egypt )
pharaon ( archaic )
Etymology
From Middle English pharao (also as pharaon , farao , faraon , etc.), from Old English pharao , from Late Latin Pharaō , from Ancient Greek Φαραώ ( Pharaṓ ) , from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה ( par‘ōh ) , from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ ( “ palace, pharaoh ” , literally “ pr ( “ house ” ) + ꜥꜣ ( “ great, big ” ) ” ) .
Noun
pharaoh (countable and uncountable , plural pharaohs )
( historical ) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt ; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pharaoh
1611 , The Holy Bible, [ … ] (King James Version ), London: [ … ] Robert Barker , [ … ] , →OCLC , Exodus 14: 18 , column 1:And the Egyptians ſhall know that I am the Lord , when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh , vpon his charets, and vpon his horſemen.
( uncountable , card games ) The card game faro .
1945 , Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning gold :"I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.
Translations
supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
Aghul: ферӏеван
Albanian: faraon m
Amharic: ፈርኦን ( färʾon )
Arabic: فِرْعَوْن (ar) m ( firʕawn )
Egyptian Arabic: فرعون m ( furʕūn )
Hijazi Arabic: فرعون m ( firʕōn )
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܦܪܥܘܢ m ( perʿūn )
Armenian: փարավոն (hy) ( pʻaravon )
Asturian: faraón (ast) m
Avar: фиргӏавн ( firʻawn )
Azerbaijani: firon
Bashkir: фирғәүен ( firğəwen )
Bats: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: фарао́н m ( faraón )
Bengali: ফেরাউন ( pheraun )
Bulgarian: фарао́н m ( faraón )
Burmese: ဖါရော ( hparau: )
Catalan: faraó (ca) m
Chechen: пирӏон ( pirˀon )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 法老 ( faat3 lou5 ) , 法老王
Mandarin: 法老 (zh) ( fǎlǎo ) , 法老王
Coptic: ⲫⲁⲣⲁⲱ ( pharaō )
Czech: faraon (cs) m , farao (cs) m
Danish: farao c
Dargwa: пиргӏяван ( pirʿəvan )
Dutch: farao (nl) m
Egyptian: (nswt-bjtj m ), (nsw m ), ( Late Egyptian ) (pr-ꜥꜣ m )
Esperanto: faraono
Estonian: vaarao
Faroese: farao c
Finnish: faarao (fi)
French: pharaon (fr) m
Galician: faraón (gl) m
Ge'ez: ፈርዖን ( färʿon )
Georgian: ფარაონი ( paraoni )
German: Pharao (de) m , Pharaonin (de) f
Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰𐍉 ( faraō )
Greek: Φαραώ (el) m ( Faraó ) , φαραώ m ( faraó )
Ancient Greek: Φαραώ m ( Pharaṓ ) , Φαραών m ( Pharaṓn )
Hebrew: פַּרְעֹה (he) m ( par'ó )
Hindi: फ़िरौन m ( firaun ) , फ़ैरो m ( fairo ) , फिरऔन (hi) m ( phiraaun ) , फ़िरऔन ( firaaun )
Hungarian: fáraó (hu)
Icelandic: faraó m
Ido: faraono (io)
Ilocano: paraon
Indonesian: firaun
Ingrian: varajooni
Ingush: пирӏов ( pirˀov ) , перӏун ( perˀun )
Italian: faraone (it) m
Japanese: ファラオ ( farao )
Kazakh: перғауын ( perğauyn )
Khmer: ផារ៉ាអុង ( para'ong ) , ផារ៉ោន ( phaaraon )
Korean: 파라오 (ko) ( parao )
Kumyk: пиравун ( pirawun )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: fîrewn (ku) m
Kyrgyz: фараон ( faraon )
Lak: пиръаьн ( pirʼän )
Lao: ຟາໂຣ ( fā rō )
Latin: pharaō m
Latvian: faraons m
Lezgi: фиръаван ( firʾavan )
Lithuanian: faraonas (lt) m
Macedonian: фараон m ( faraon )
Malagasy: farao (mg) , Farao
Malay: firaun (ms)
Maltese: fargħun m
Maori: pārao
Marathi: फेरो m ( phero )
Mongolian: фараон (mn) ( faraon )
Norwegian: farao (no) m
Occitan: faraon (oc) m
Odia: ଫାରୋ (or) ( phāro )
Old Church Slavonic: фараѡнъ ( faraonŭ )
Old East Slavic: фараонъ m ( faraonŭ )
Ottoman Turkish: فرعون ( fir’avn )
Pashto: فرعون (ps) m ( fer'áwn )
Persian: فرعون (fa) ( fer'own )
Polish: faraon (pl) m
Portuguese: faraó (pt) m
Punjabi: ਫਰਾਓਹੋ m ( pharāoho )
Romanian: faraon (ro) m
Russian: фарао́н (ru) m ( faraón )
Rutul: фергьаӏвын
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фара̀о̄н m
Roman: faràōn (sh) m
Shan: ၽႃႇရေႃး ( phàa ráu )
Slovak: faraón (sk) m
Spanish: faraón (es) m
Old Spanish: pharaon
Swahili: firauni (sw)
Swedish: farao (sv) c
Tabasaran: фяряуьн ( fjarjau̱n )
Tagalog: paraon
Tajik: фиръавн ( firʾavn )
Tatar: фиргавен (tt) ( firgawen )
Telugu: ఫరో ( pharō )
Thai: ฟาโรห์ ( faa-roo )
Turkish: firavun (tr)
Turkmen: faraon
Ukrainian: фарао́н (uk) m ( faraón )
Urdu: فرعون (ur) m ( fir'aun )
Uyghur: فىرئەۋىن ( fir'ewin )
Uzbek: firʼavn (uz)
Vietnamese: pha-ra-ông
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) faraon , ( ♂ ) hifaraon , ( ♀ ) jifaraon
Yiddish: פּרעה m ( pare )
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