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Pharmouthi

Pharmouthi proper noun: the eighth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the fourth and last month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Pharmouthi has been in roughly April.

Proper noun

Pharmouthi

  1. The eighth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the fourth and last month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Pharmouthi has been in roughly April.

Forms of Pharmouthi

alternative formBarmudah
alternative formParmouti
alternative formPharmuthi

Origin of Pharmouthi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φαρμουθί (Pharmouthí), from Egyptian pꜣ-n-rnn-wtt. Compare Coptic Ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲓ (Parmouthi).

Questions about Pharmouthi

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

Words near Pharmouthi in the dictionary

  1. pharmics
  2. pharming
  3. pharmocogeneticists
  4. pharmodynamic
  5. pharmorubicin
  6. Pharmouthi
  7. pharms
  8. Pharmuthi
  9. pharo
  10. pharoah
  11. pharoahs

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