Mecheir

English

proper-noun
Definitions
  • The sixth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the second month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Mecheir has been in roughly February.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μεχείρ derived from Egyptian pꜣ-n-pꜣ-mḫrw (the one of the censer).

Origin

Egyptian

pꜣ-n-pꜣ-mḫrw

Gloss

the one of the censer

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