different between pharaoh vs negus

English

Alternative forms

• pharao (the supreme ruler of ancient Egypt)
• Pharaoh (the supreme ruler of ancient Egypt)
• pharaon (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English pharao (also as pharaon, farao, faraon, etc.), from Old English pharao, from Late Latin Phara?, from Ancient Greek ????? (Phara?), from Hebrew ????????? (par‘?h), from Egyptian pr ?? (“palace, pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ?? (“great, big”)”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?f?????/, /?f?????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fæ?o?/, /?f?(?)?o?/
• Homophones: faro, Faroe

Noun

pharaoh (plural pharaohs)

1. (historical) 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
2. (uncountable, card games) The card game faro.

Hyponyms

• (female): pharaohess

Derived terms

• pharaoh ant
• pharaohess
• pharaonic

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ni???s/

Etymology 1

Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.

Noun

negus (countable and uncountable, plural neguses)

1. A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 177 ?ISBN

     And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 258:

     ‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Amharic ??? (n?gu?, “king”).

Noun

negus (plural neguses)

1. (historical) A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 240:

     It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.

Translations

Anagrams

• genus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ??? (n?gu?, “king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.?us/
• Hyphenation: nè?gus

Noun

negus m (invariable)

1. (historical) Title of the highest grade in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Empire; Negus

Derived terms

• negussita

See also

• ras

Polish

Etymology

From Amharic ??? (n?gu?, “king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.?us/

Noun

negus m pers

1. (historical) negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

Declension

Further reading

• negus in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• negus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ??? (n?gu?).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?n?.?us/

Noun

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

Spanish

Noun

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)