ϣⲁϥⲉ

Coptic

Eastern Desert in Egypt

Etymology

From Demotic ḫfꜣ (“bank, dyke”) (compare Greco-Roman Egyptian

(ḫf)), from Egyptian

(ḫfꜣꜣt, “bank, field”).

Noun

ϣⲁϥⲉ • (šafe) m

(Bohairic) wilderness
(Bohairic) desert

References

Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 261

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