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Egypt (Desher-Kemi)
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Perhaps the most important and beautiful name given by the Egyptians
to ancient Egypt and they used it a lot is (Desher-Kemi) that is to say
(red and black) to designate the word “desher” to the red desert, from
where the name of the desert comes in Latin languages (desher of the desert),
and they refer to the word “Kemi” to the black earth Fertile rich in minerals,
and from this name came the name (chemistry) as a science dealing with minerals.
Names of ancient Egypt
→ The time of its appearance and use
→ Meanings
1
Kma, Kema, Kmt
→ Oldest name of Egypt
→ Mineral-saturated black earth, from which a quantitative name is derived for its mineral indication
2
Ta kemi
→ The Old Kingdom
→ The land of Kemi: Black Earth (brown, cellar) and this may have been named in ancient Amazigh,
and the other (Ran Kema) i.e., Egyptian and Ramthan Kema i.e. (Egyptians)
3
Ha-Ka-Ptah
→ Used as a name for Memphis of the Old Kingdom, used by the Greeks and turned into Aigyptos
→ The place of god’s spirit Ptah, which is believed to be the capital of Egypt in the Old Kingdom,
is the name that evolved into Aigyptos. And this is the source of the word Coptic, and the origin of the word Idet.
4
Het-Ka-Ptah
→ Originally, the name of one of the most famous temples of the god Ptah in the city of
→ Memphis: (nowin ruins – the village of El-Badrashine – governorate of Giza),
which was established at the time of the first dynasty, and its ruins remain today,
which means (the seat of the woman (God) Ptah)
The Wall of the Spirit of Ptah (Walled City in the Spirit of Ptah)
5
Aigyptos
→ The Greeks used it and switched to European languages and became Ig ebet,
when the Arabes conquered Egypt and they had trouble pronouncing “Igebet”,
a reference to the Egyptian citizen, so they pronounced it “Ekobti” and “Coptic”,
meaning that the Coptic word as we mentioned means “Egyptian citizen”.
→ A Greek word is a Greek vote for the word “ha ka petah”, which is supposed to come from the
people of the fortified country, but they meant it (black) and some of them used it to disparego (black)
and the name may come from Gebtos, i.e.  Geb Petah, meaning “Land of Ptah”.
6
Desher-Kemi
→ The name that the ancient Egyptians used to call their country.
→ Its meaning (red and black) refers to the desert (red) and the Nile basin (black).
7
Ta-Desher
→ The inhabitants of the southern Hesser Desert used it to designate their land.
→ Red Earth (Desert), Desheret, from where the name of the desert comes in Latin
8
Ta-Wi
→ Perhaps it was used in pre-dynasty times.
→ Both lands mean a reference to the level (Tashmto) and the delta (Tamehu)
9
Ta-mery
→ Land of the Greens
10
Ira-Raa
→ Ain Ra (Eye of the Sun)
11
Gah
→ Healthy
12
Esrity
→ The same mihrabeen
13
Bakah
→ Olives (due to their permanent greenery)
14
Edboui
→ The two banks (banks of the East and West Nile)
15
Meshir
→ Mashry and Maswy appeared in a word painting found in northwestern Iraq
addressed to the pharaoh of Egypt and in an Assyrian painting and text by Ras al-Shamra in northern  Syria.
→ It is the name of the sixth month of the Pharaonic and Coptic year, and begins from 2/11 to 10/3
in our current calendar and refers to the god of whirlpools (Mukhair, Monthu)
16
Ra–Mes -- Messri
→ The child of Ra (son of Ra) that is, (son of the sun), which is the 12th month of the
Coptic and Pharaonic calendars and causes the birth to leave the sun
17
Medjer,  Mesher
→ Mechanized, Fortified
18
Misr
→ The Babylonians called it Egypt and Egypt, and the word “Egypt” was mentioned in a Phoenician text
dating from the early 2000sBC, and people named in Yemen called it Egypt and Egypt. And in the Torat,
it was mentioned in Misraim and the Hebrews said that the land of  Misraim is the land of Egypt or the
land of the Egyptians and in the Aramaic and Syriac texts, these are  the Egyptians
→ The Babylonians first called it “Misro and Egypt”, then the Phoenicians (Egypt), the Hebrews (Misraim)
and the Arabs (Egypt) and it is not intended (territory or country) as it is common, but it means (son of the sun)
or (barrier, wall, fort) and this is also what the noble formulation of the word “Egypt” means, and the Arabic meaning is very late.

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