A word, phrase, or design that is characteristic of Egypt.

plural of Egyptianism

A domestic cat of a short-haired breed originating in Egypt, with a well-muscled medium-length body.

(number theory) A representation of a rational number as a sum of distinct unit fractions. / (number theory, rare) A unit fraction.

The dialect of Modern Arabic spoken in Egypt. Egyptian Arabic is a dialect continuum.

Very intense darkness.

A pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi₄O₁₀”), the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.

(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by a relatively synthetic typology, including Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Middle Egyptian, and Neo-Middle Egyptian, and contrasted against Later Egyptian.

(linguistics, history) The Egyptian language as written and spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, before the time of the earliest attested complete sentences.

(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by a relatively analytic typology, including Medio-Late Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic, and contrasted against Earlier Egyptian.