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Bohairic, a. and n.|bəʊˈhaɪərɪk|
Also Bahiric.
[f. Bohairah, Bahirah (Boheira, Beherah), the Arabic name of Lower Egypt (Arab. buhaira lake).]
The designation of the classical or standard form of Coptic spoken in Alexandria and the north-western Delta, and of the version of the Bible (the official version of the Bible of the Coptic Church) written in this language. (= memphitic.)
1830H. Tattam Gram. Egypt. Lang. 135 The Coptic, or, as it has been called, the Bahiric, but more properly the Memphitic, was the Dialect of Lower Egypt. 1874Lightfoot in Scrivener Crit. N.T. (ed. 2) 327 The Bahiric or Memphitic Version. 1898G. W. Horner (title) The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect otherwise called Memphitic and Bohairic. 1958F. Kenyon Our Bible (ed. 5) viii. 234 Originally, however, the dialect in which it is written belonged only to the coast district near Alexandria, and another dialect was in use in Memphis itself; hence it is better to avoid the term Memphitic, and use the more strictly accurate name Bohairic. |