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Phaophi

Phaophi proper noun: the second month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the second month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Phaophi has been in roughly October.

Proper noun

Phaophi

  1. The second month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the second month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Phaophi has been in roughly October.

Origin of Phaophi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φαωφί (Phaōphí), from Egyptian pꜣ-n-jpt. Compare Coptic Ⲡⲁⲱⲡⲓ (Paōpi).

Questions about Phaophi

What does Phaophi mean?
Phaophi means the second month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the second month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Phaophi has been in roughly October.
What part of speech is Phaophi?
Phaophi is a proper noun.

Words near Phaophi in the dictionary

  1. phantosmia
  2. phantosmias
  3. phantosmic
  4. phantosmics
  5. phantosms
  6. Phaophi
  7. phaora
  8. phaoras
  9. phaphda
  10. phaphdas
  11. PHAR

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