Etymology

Sharm el-Sheikh

Today it means: A city in Egypt, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. Full definition →

Egyptian Arabic شرم الشيخ
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The story

  1. Egyptian Arabic · derived fromشرم الشيخ“bay of the wise”
  2. English todaySharm el-Sheikh

From Egyptian Arabic شرم الشيخ (šarm eš-šēḵ, “bay of the wise”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.