pharaoh
noun/ˈfeərəʊ/
/ˈferəʊ/
- a political leader of ancient EgyptWord OriginMiddle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek Pharaō, from Hebrew par‘ōh, from Egyptian pr-‘o ‘great house’.
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