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Masr en · PROPN

Etymology

From Egyptian Arabic مصر (maṣr), from Arabic مِصْر (miṣr), ultimately from Hebrew מִצְרַיִם.

Meanings

  1. (rare) Egypt
    • Masr had long since ceased to be the mistress of her own destiny; she had become a province of the Ottoman Empire, which was itself enfeebled now, allowed to keep its territories only by the consent of the Great Powers 2011 August 4, Amitav Ghosh, In An Antique Land, Granta Books, →ISBN:
    • The name of Cairo is a contraction of the title given to it by its founder of " Masr-el-Kahira," or "The Victory of Egypt," Masr signifying Egypt. 1898, Joseph Pollard, The land of the monuments: notes of Egyptian travel, page 37:
    • An epithet to its name, misri, indicates Masr or Egypt as its home. 2002, Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian rhythm: the heavenly melodies, page 107:
    • But there are many of the people of Daud Nigâlemi in the land of Masr, being Yamanites, the people of Saif of the Ansar, the well known tribe of Magumi. 1928, Herbert Richmond Palmer, Sudanese Memoirs: Being Mainly Translations of a Number of Arabic Manuscripts Relating to the Central and Western Sudan:
    • I employ thee for dealing with the men of Masr, so the dress of Masr best becomes thee. 1909, Marmaduke William Pickthall, The Children of the Nile:
    • Masr, meaning both the capital and the land of Egypt 2010, Dan Richardson, Daniel Jacobs, The Rough Guide to Egypt, page 73:
  2. (dated) Cairo, especially Old Cairo.
    • In A.D. 969 Egypt was conquered by the Fatemite Khalif el-Moëz, who transferred the centre of the government from Tunis to Masr, and built a fortress near the latter town to contain the palace 1888, A Handbook for Travellers in Lower and upper Egypt, page 162:
    • When once installed in his chair at Alexandria, he went back to Masr (Cairo) and ruled the Church from thence. 1872, Coptic Church, Solomon Caesar Malan, The Divine Liturgy of Saint Mark the Evangelist, page 45:
    • Every step gives him a stab of pain in his swollen knee, and he has made up his mind that he must go to Masr (Cairo). 1921, Quarterly Paper-Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society: