Etymology

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Today it means: An extinct kind of dog from Ancient Egypt resembling a greyhound Full definition →

Egyptian ṯzm
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  1. Egyptian · borrowed fromṯzm“hound”
  2. English todayTesem

From a nineteenth-century transcription of Egyptian ṯzm (“hound”).

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