pharaoh

See also: Pharaoh

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

pharaoh

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Pharaoh, pharao, pharaon (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English pharao (also as pharaon, farao, faraon, etc.), from Old English Pharao, from Late Latin Pharaō, from Koine Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (Parʿō), from Egyptian

(pr-ꜥꜣ, “palace; pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”)”)

Pronunciation

enPR: fāʹrō, fârʹō, fărʹō
(UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛː.ɹəʊ/, /ˈfɛə.ɹəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹ.oʊ/, /ˈfɛ(ə)ɹ.oʊ/
Rhymes: (UK, General Australian) -ɛːɹəʊ, (UK, US, General Australian) -ɛəɹəʊ, (US) -æɹəʊ
Homophones: faro, Faroe, farrow
Homophone: Ferro (only in accents with the Mary-marry-merry merger)
Hyphenation: pha‧raoh

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
Hypernym: ruler

Hyponym: pharaohess

Instances: 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.

Derived terms

Related terms

pharaonic

Descendants

→ Bengali: ফারাও (pharaō)
→ Hindi: फ़ैरो (fairo)
→ Japanese: ファラオ (farao)
→ Korean: 파라오 (parao)
→ Thai: ฟาโรห์ (faa-roo)

Translations

supreme ruler of ancient Egypt

Abkhaz: афарао́н (afaraón)
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: ফারাও (pharaō), ফেরাউন (pheraun)
Bulgarian: фарао́н m (faraón)
Burmese: ဖါရော (hparau:)
Catalan: faraó (ca) m
Chechen: пирӏон (pirˀon)
Cherokee: ᏇᎵᏲ (queliyo)
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)
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 (ja) (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
Māori: pārao
Marathi: फेरो m (phero)
Mongolian: фараон (mn) (faraon)
Navajo: féro
Norwegian: farao (no) m
Occitan: faraon (oc) m
Odia: ଫାରୋ (or) (phāro)
Old Church Slavonic: фараѡнъ (faraonŭ)
Old East Slavic: фараонъ m (faraonŭ)
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 (ferhaˤvɨn)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фара̀о̄н m

Latin: 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 (tg) (fir'avn)
Tatar: фиргавен (tt) (firğäwen)
Telugu: ఫరో (pharō)
Thai: ฟาโรห์ (th) (faa-roo)
Turkish: firavun (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: فرعون (fir’avun)
Turkmen: faraon
Ukrainian: фарао́н (uk) m (faraón)
Urdu: فرعون (ur) m (fir'aun)
Uyghur: فىرئەۋىن (fir'ewin)
Uzbek: firʼavn (uz)
Vietnamese: pha-ra-ông (vi)
Volapük: (♂♀) faraon, (♂) hifaraon, (♀) jifaraon
Yiddish: פּרעה m (pare)
Zulu: please add this translation if you can