Egypt
مصر (Mişr)
- Būr Sā'id (بور سعݐد) : Port Said
- Al-Ğīzah (الجݐزة) : Giza
- Al-Iskandariyya (الإسکندرݐة) : Alexandria
- An-Nīl (النݐل) : Nile
- Al-Qāhira (القاهرة) : Cairo
- As-Suways (السوݐس) : Suez
- Al-Uqşur (الاقصر) : Luxor
Read more about this topic: English Exonyms
Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,”
—Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Go down, Moses
‘Way down in Egypt land,
Tell ole Pharaoh,
To let my people go.”
—Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)