Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
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Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
Nations and ethnic groups
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Egyptians
Egyptians ( arz, المَصرِيُون, translit=al-Maṣriyyūn, ; arz, المَصرِيِين, translit=al-Maṣriyyīn, ; cop, ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile, Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian ...
, a national group in North Africa
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Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of
recorded history
Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method. For broader world hist ...
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Egyptian cuisine, the local culinary traditions of Egypt
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Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
, the modern country in northeastern Africa
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Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian ( ar, العامية المصرية, ), or simply Masri (also Masry) (), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic dialect in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and o ...
, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt
** A citizen of Egypt; see
Demographics of Egypt
Egypt is the most populous country in North Africa and the fourth-most populous on the African continent, after Nigeria, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. About 95% of the country's 102 million people (July 2021) live along the ba ...
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Ancient Egypt, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC
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Ancient Egyptians, ethnic people of ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egyptian architecture
Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, but a set of styles diff ...
, the architectural structure style
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Ancient Egyptian cuisine
The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times. The staples of both poor and wealthy Egyptians were bread and beer, often accompanied by green- ...
, the cuisine of ancient Egypt
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Egyptian language
The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead language, dead Afroasiatic languages, Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large Text corpus, corpus of surviving texts which were made acces ...
, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family
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Copts
Copts ( cop, ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ; ar, الْقِبْط ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. Most ethnic Copts are C ...
, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority
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Coptic language
Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: , ) is a language family of closely related dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic ...
or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th century, surviving in Coptic liturgy
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Romani people
The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...
a.k.a. Gypsy, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas
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Egyptians (Balkans)
Egyptians ( arz, المَصرِيُون, translit=al-Maṣriyyūn, ; arz, المَصرِيِين, translit=al-Maṣriyyīn, ; cop, ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian ident ...
, an Albanian-speaking ethnic minority of Kosovo and Macedonia
Art and entertainment
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Egyptian (band)
Egyptian is an American indie rock duo band and the side project of formerly married singers Dan Reynolds and Aja Volkman.
Formation
Invited to perform an opening set for Nico Vega, Dan Reynolds met Aja Volkman in 2010. He invited her to help ...
, an American indie rock band
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The Egyptians (band)
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the ...
, an English band
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''The Egyptian'' (film), a 1954 film by Michael Curtiz, based on Waltari's novel
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The Egyptian'', a 1945 historical novel by Mika Waltari
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Piano Concerto No. 5 (Saint-Saëns)
The Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103, popularly known as ''The Egyptian'', was Camille Saint-Saëns' last piano concerto. He wrote it in 1896, 20 years after his Fourth Piano Concerto, to play himself at his own Jubilee Concert on May ...
a.k.a. ''The Egyptian'', a piano concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns
Other uses
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Egyptian (typeface), a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs
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Egyptian (prophet), a nameless 1st-century messianic revolt leader
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Little Egypt (region), something of, from, or related to the region of Southern Illinois
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Egyptian Lover (born 1963), American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ
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Egyptian Healy (1866–1899), pitcher for Major League Baseball in the 19th century
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Egyptian (ship), various ships with that name
See also
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Egypt (disambiguation)
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Egyptienne (disambiguation)
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