القِبْطُ
Root: قبط
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القِبْطُ
[The Copts; often called by themselves القُبْطُ;] a certain people, or nation, in Egypt; the original, or genuine, people of Egypt; the Christians of Egypt: n. un.
قِبْطِىٌّ ; fem. with ة: you say إِمْرَأَةٌ قِبْطِيَّةٌ [A Copt woman]: and جَمَاعَةٌ قِبْطِيَّةٌ and أَقْبَاطٌ [A company of Copts;
اقباط being a pl. of قِبْطٌ]. [See قُبْطِىٌّ.] Authors differ respecting their pedigree: some say, that القِبْطُ was son of حَام [or Ham], son of نُوح [or Noah]: the author of the Shejereh, that مِصْرَائِيم [or Mizraïm] the son of حام left issue from لُوذِيم [or Ludim], and that لوذيم are the قِبْط of Egypt, in the Sa'eed: Aboo-Háshim Ahmad Ibn-Jaafar El-'Abbásee, the genealogist, says, that they are the children of قِبْط son of مِصْر son of قُوط [a mistranscription for فُوط, the Phut of the English Bible, A. V.,] son of حام: and this is verified by Ibn-El-Joowánee the genealogist.
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