Crossword clues for coptic
coptic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coptic \Cop"tic\ (k[o^]p"t[i^]k), a. [Abbrev. from L. Aegyptius an Egyptian, Gr. ?, Ar. kibt[=i], pl. kibt.] Of or pertaining to the Copts. -- n. The language of the Copts.
Wikipedia
Coptic may refer to:
- Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya.
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or Coptic Church, the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East
- Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
- Coptic alphabet, the script used for writing the Coptic language
- Coptic (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language
- SS Coptic (1881), a ship of the White Star Line
Coptic is a Unicode block used with the Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, Greek and Coptic was used exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification. Any specifically Coptic letters in the Greek and Coptic block are not reproduced in the Coptic Unicode block.
Usage examples of "coptic".
It was an exorcism, and a very old one, in Aramaic and Latin and corrupt Coptic.
In addition to his exhaustive acquaintance with Sanskrit, and the southern India vernaculars, he had some knowledge of Tibetan, Arabic, Kawi, Javanese and Coptic.
The neatly written, ragged-edged texts were all in ancient Coptic, most likely composed by monks who lived at the nearby Pachomian monastery during the fourth century.
At that moment a procession emerged from the caves, headed by four coal-black priests of the Coptic Christian Church in their gaudy robes, chanting in Amharic, swinging incense and carrying ornate, if crudely wrought bronze crosses.
Because the direction of the seventh-century Moslem armies was east to west, across the top of Egypt toward Libya and the Maghreb, the Copts fled southward, into Upper Egypt, which is why the Coptic presence in places like Assiut is proportionally higher than in Cairo, Alexandria, and the intervening delta—20 percent of the population in Upper Egypt as opposed to 10 percent in Lower Egypt is Coptic.
The sons of the abuna, the archbishop of the Coptic Church, were taken to one of the revolutionary courts and were tortured.
I have Coptic textiles of the sixth century and Alencon lace of the sixteenth.
Services at the Coptic church had already begun when we reached the village, though you would not have supposed it to be so from the babble of voices that could be heard within.
Ancient Coptic, the last remnant of the tongue of the pharaohs, is no longer spoken except in a few remote hamlets to the south, but it survives in the ritual of the Coptic Church.
The little building resembled a small Coptic church with its many arches.
The work does not go far toward its goal of dealing with the Gnosis in Greek or Coptic, but there are unannounced turns of emphasis that are most valuable.
Those other two yonder, with the dark green gowns and the miters, they are Coptic priests.
As each new language appeared, an appropriate scholar was summoned to the CNN newsroom to pontificate upon the meaning of the words, though in each case the meaning was the same, whether in Latin, Coptic, Armenian, Aramaic, or various forms of ancient or modern Hebrew or Greek: “.
I decided it was her Coptic blood, and her upbringing in Damascus among Muhammedans that made her unlike anyone I had ever known.
Ungerlieder and Shaeffer (UCLA) and who showed absolutely no brain differences between them and non-smokers nor did it confirm any increase in IQ that the Coptics had claimed.