Sahidic

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Definitions

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  1. 1
    A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt.

Synonyms

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thebaicthebaic

Etymology

Calque of Arabic صَعِيدِي (ṣaʕīdī, “Upper Egyptian, Thebaic”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.

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