Egyptology

Egyptology

See also: egyptology

English

Alternative forms

• Ægyptology (obsolete)
• egyptology

Etymology

Egypt +‎ -o- +‎ -logy

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌiːd͡ʒɪpˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

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Noun

Egyptology (countable and uncountable, plural Egyptologies)

1. (uncountable) The study of ancient Egypt.
2. (countable) A work concerning ancient Egypt.

Derived terms

• Egyptologist
• Egyptological

Translations

the study of ancient Egypt

Arabic: عِلْم اَلْمِصْرِيَّات‎ (ʿilm al-miṣriyyāt) Azerbaijani: misirşünaslıq Catalan: egiptologia f Chinese: Mandarin: 埃及學／埃及学 (zh), 埃及学 (zh) (āijíxué) Czech: egyptologie (cs) f Dutch: egyptologie (nl) f Esperanto: egiptologio Finnish: egyptologia (fi) French: égyptologie (fr) f Galician: exiptoloxía f German: Ägyptologie (de) f Greek: αιγυπτιολογία (el) f (aigyptiología) (aigyptiología) Hungarian: egyiptológia (hu) Ido: egiptologio (io) Irish: Éigipteolaíocht f Italian: egittologia (it) Kazakh: мысыртану (mysyrtanu) Khmer: អេហ្សីបវិទ្យា (eeziip vityie) Latin: aegyptologia Macedonian: египтоло́гија f (egiptológija) Malay: kaji Mesir purba Norwegian: Bokmål: egyptologi (no) m Persian: مصرشناسی‎ (fa) (mesr-šenâsi) Polish: egiptologia (pl) f Portuguese: egiptologia (pt) f Russian: египтоло́гия (ru) f (jegiptológija) Slovak: egyptológia (sk) f Spanish: egiptología (es) f Swedish: egyptologi (sv) c Tajik: мисршиносӣ (misršinosī) Uzbek: misrshunoslik Vietnamese: Ai Cập học Volapük: Lägüptänav