Bohairic en · PROPN
Etymology
Calque of Arabic بُحَيْرِيّ (buḥayriyy, “Of the Beheira Governate, from around Lake Mareotis”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.
Meanings
- The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE