Sahidic
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt.
Etymology
Calque of Arabic صَعِيدِي (ṣaʕīdī, “Upper Egyptian, Thebaic”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.