name
Meaning 1
Any specific pharaoh.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pharaoh
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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fârʹō
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fāʹrō
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fărʹō
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Australian, UK: /ˈfɛː.ɹəʊ/
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Australian, UK: /ˈfɛə.ɹəʊ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: /ˈfɛɹ(ˌ)oʊ/ most common
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US, uncommon: /ˈfeɪ(ˌ)ɹoʊ/
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US: /ˈfæɹ.oʊ/
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rhymes with (UK, General Australian) -ɛːɹəʊ
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rhymes with (UK, US, General Australian) -ɛəɹəʊ
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rhymes with (US) -æɹəʊ
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homophone: faro
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homophone: Faroe
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homophone: farrow
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homophone: Ferro (only in accents with the Mary-marry-merry merger)
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CMU ARPABET: F EH1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: F EY1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Examples
- Instances: see Thesaurus:pharaoh
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ruler
noun
Meaning 3
The card game faro.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Alternative letter-case form of pharaoh.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
the title of the ancient Egyptian kings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Pharaoh of Egypt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ruler, swayer
Narrower terms: Cheops, Khufu, Tutankhamen
History
Etymology
From Middle English pharao (also as pharaon, farao, faraon, etc.), from Old English Pharao, from Late Latin Pharaō, from Koine Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Biblical Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (Parʿō), from Egyptian pr:aA (pr-ꜥꜣ, “palace; pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”)”)
Across languages
Translations
122 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abkhaz: афарао́н (afaraón) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Aghul: ферӏеван — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Albanian: faraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Amharic: ፈርኦን (färʾon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Arabic: فِرْعَوْن (firʕawn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Arabic: فرعون (furʕūn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Arabic: فرعون (firʕōn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Aramaic: ܦܪܥܘܢ (perʿūn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Armenian: փարավոն (pʻaravon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Asturian: faraón — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Avar: фиргӏавн (firʻawn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Azerbaijani: firon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Bashkir: фирғәүен (firğəwen) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Belarusian: фарао́н (faraón) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Bengali: ফারাও (pharaō) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Bengali: ফেরাউন (pheraun) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Bulgarian: фарао́н (faraón) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Burmese: ဖါရော (hparau:) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Catalan: faraó — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Chechen: пирӏон (pirˀon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Cherokee: ᏇᎵᏲ (queliyo) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Chinese Cantonese: 法老 (faat3 lou5) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Chinese Cantonese: 法老王 — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Chinese Mandarin: 法老 (fǎlǎo) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Chinese Mandarin: 法老王 — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Coptic: ⲫⲁⲣⲁⲱ (pharaō) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Czech: faraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Czech: farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Danish: farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Dargwa: пиргӏяван (pirʿəvan) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Dutch: farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Egyptian: sw:t-bit:t (nswt-bjtj) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Egyptian: sw-t:n (nsw) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Egyptian: pr:aA (pr-ꜥꜣ) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Esperanto: faraono — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Estonian: vaarao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Faroese: farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Finnish: faarao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- French: pharaon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Galician: faraón — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ge'ez: ፈርዖን (färʿon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Georgian: ფარაონი (paraoni) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- German: Pharao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- German: Pharaonin — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰𐍉 (faraō) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Greek: Φαραώ (Faraó) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Greek: φαραώ (faraó) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greek: Φαραώ (Pharaṓ) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greek: Φαραών (Pharaṓn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Hebrew: פַּרְעֹה (par'ó) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Hindi: फ़िरौन (firaun) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Hungarian: fáraó — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Icelandic: faraó — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ido: faraono — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ilocano: paraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Indonesian: firaun — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ingrian: varajooni — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ingush: пирӏов (pirˀov) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ingush: перӏун (perˀun) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Italian: faraone — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Japanese: ファラオ (farao) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Kazakh: перғауын (perğauyn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Khmer: ផារ៉ាអុង (para'ong) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Khmer: ផារ៉ោន (phaaraon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Korean: 파라오 (parao) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Kumyk: пиравун (pirawun) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Northern Kurdish: fîrewn — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Kyrgyz: фараон (faraon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Lak: пиръаьн (pirʼän) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Lao: ຟາໂຣ (fā rō) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Latin: pharaō — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Latvian: faraons — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Lezgi: фиръаван (firʾavan) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Lithuanian: faraonas — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Macedonian: фараон (faraon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Malagasy: farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Malagasy: Farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Malay: firaun — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Maltese: fargħun — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Māori: pārao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Marathi: फेरो (phero) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Mongolian: фараон (faraon) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Navajo: féro — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Norwegian: farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Occitan: faraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Odia: ଫାରୋ (phāro) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Old Church Slavonic: фараѡнъ (faraonŭ) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Old East Slavic: фараонъ (faraonŭ) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Pashto: فرعون (fer'áwn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Persian: فرعون (fer'own) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Polish: faraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Portuguese: faraó — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Punjabi: ਫਰਾਓਹੋ (pharāoho) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Romanian: faraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Russian: фарао́н (faraón) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Rutul: фергьаӏвын (ferhaʕvɨn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Serbo-Croatian: фара̀о̄н — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Serbo-Croatian: faràōn — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Shan: ၽႃႇရေႃး (phàa ráu) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Slovak: faraón — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Spanish: faraón — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Old Spanish: pharaon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Swahili: firauni — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Swedish: farao — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Tabasaran: фяряуьн (fjarjau̱n) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Tagalog: paraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Tajik: фиръавн (fir'avn) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Tatar: фиргавен (firğäwen) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Telugu: ఫరో (pharō) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Thai: ฟาโรห์ (faa-roo) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Turkish: firavun — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ottoman Turkish: فرعون (fir’avun) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Turkmen: faraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Ukrainian: фарао́н (faraón) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Urdu: فرعون (fir'aun) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Uyghur: فىرئەۋىن (fir'ewin) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Uzbek: firʼavn — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Vietnamese: pha-ra-ông — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Volapük: faraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Volapük: hifaraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Volapük: jifaraon — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
- Yiddish: פּרעה (pare) — supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
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