faraó

See also: farao, fáraó, and farão

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin Pharaō, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fə.ɾəˈo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fa.ɾaˈo]
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

faraó m (plural faraons, feminine faraona)

1. pharaoh

Noun

faraó m (plural faraons)

1. (card games) faro

Derived terms

• faraònic

Further reading

• “faraó” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Noun

faraó m (plural faraós, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of faraón

References

• “faraó” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Icelandic

Alternative forms

• faró

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːra.ouː/

Noun

faraó m (genitive singular faraós, nominative plural faraóar)

1. pharaoh

Declension

Declension of faraó (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	faraó	faraóinn	faraóar	faraóarnir
accusative	faraó	faraóinn	faraóa	faraóana
dative	faraó	faraónum	faraóum	faraóunum
genitive	faraós	faraósins	faraóa	faraóanna

Portuguese

faraó

Alternative forms

• pharaó (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin pharaō, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian

(pr-ꜥꜣ, “palace, pharaoh”), from pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“big”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fa.ɾaˈɔ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐ.ɾɐˈɔ/

• Hyphenation: fa‧ra‧ó
• Rhymes: -ɔ

Noun

faraó m or f by sense (plural faraós, feminine (rare, proscribed) faraoa or faraona, feminine plural (rare, proscribed) faraoas or faraonas)

1. (Egyptology, historical) pharaoh (supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt)

Hypernyms

• soberano

Coordinate terms

• imperador, monarca, rei

Related terms

• faraónico

Noun

faraó m (usually uncountable, plural faraós)

1. (card games) pharaoh; faro

Further reading

• “faraó” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “faraó”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “faraó”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024