The different meaning of Egypt

The origin of the word (Egypt)

Over thousands of years , Egypt has had many names in many different languages. Today, its official name is Junhuriyah Misr al- Arabiya , which in English means the Arab Republic of Egypt. Egyptians themselves refer to Egypt Misr , but it can also be a name of Cairo. Interestingly , it is common that the Egyptians refer to Egypt Misr , if he resides in Cairo , but if outside of Cairo , then refer to Cairo as Misr will. In a sense, this is a custom that dates back to the early days of ancient Egypt.

Basically , we can examine three groups of people who have asked to Egypt. In the early days of Egypt during the Old Kingdom , Egypt was known as Kemet ( Kermit ) , or simply Kmt , which means black earth . They called themselves " remetch in Kermet " which means " people of the black land. " The term refers to the rich soil found in the Nile Valley and the Delta. But also sometimes called Deshret or dshrt , which refers to the " Red Earth " or the deserts of Egypt, which is mainly composed .

Later, Egyptians referred to their country as " Hwt -ka- Ptah " (Ht -ka- Ptah, or Hout -ak Ptah ) , which means "Temple of Ka of Ptah " , or more accurately, " House Ka of Ptah " Ptah was one of the first gods of Egypt. As in modern Egypt , this was both a name for the administrative center of Egypt, what we now call Memphis, and the name of the country as a whole .

Egypt , the largest number of people in the world refer to the country today, is derived from the old name. Even today , people who speak a language often change the spelling of words in another language , because of the difficulty they may have to pronounce certain sounds of a foreign language. Therefore , pronouncing Hwt -ka- Ptah, the Greeks changed this world to Aegyptus ( Aigyptos ) used in the literature as the name of a king of Egypt (perhaps Ramesses , though a fictional way ) the Nile and the country itself. We find the word used by Homer in his famous " Odyssey . Believe that the Greeks had difficulties with the Egyptian pronunciation of the letter " H " at the beginning and the end of Hwt -ka- Ptah.

Today, the Egyptian word often used to their country is Misr . This is probably derived from an ancient term , Mizraim which may have itself comes from an ancient Egyptian word , MD -r mdr , that people in the region have called on Egypt . Misr is an Arabic name which simply means "country" , and part of the tradition of the term as a name for Egypt comes from the Islamic Koran. The term can also mean (strength ) or niche.