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Phamenoth

Today it means: The seventh month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the third month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Phamenoth has been in roughly March. Full definition →

Ancient Greek Φαμενώθ ← Egyptian pꜣ-n-jmn-ḥtp

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Egyptian · derived frompꜣ-n-jmn-ḥtp
Ancient Greek · borrowed fromΦαμενώθ
English todayPhamenoth

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φαμενώθ (Phamenṓth), from Egyptian pꜣ-n-jmn-ḥtp. Compare Coptic Ⲡⲁⲣⲉⲙϩⲟⲧⲡ (Paremhotp).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.