Masr

See also: mas'r

English

Etymology

From Egyptian Arabic مصر (maṣr), from Arabic مِصْر (miṣr), ultimately from Hebrew מִצְרַיִם.

Proper noun

Masr

1. (rare) Egypt
   • 1898, Joseph Pollard, The land of the monuments: notes of Egyptian travel‎^[1], page 37:

     The name of Cairo is a contraction of the title given to it by its founder of " Masr-el-Kahira," or "The Victory of Egypt," Masr signifying Egypt.

   • 2002, Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian rhythm: the heavenly melodies‎^[2], page 107:

     An epithet to its name, misri, indicates Masr or Egypt as its home.

   • 2010, Dan Richardson, Daniel Jacobs, The Rough Guide to Egypt, page 73:

     Masr, meaning both the capital and the land of Egypt

   • 1909, Marmaduke William Pickthall, The Children of the Nile:

     I employ thee for dealing with the men of Masr, so the dress of Masr best becomes thee.

   • 1928, Herbert Richmond Palmer, Sudanese Memoirs: Being Mainly Translations of a Number of Arabic Manuscripts Relating to the Central and Western Sudan:

     But there are many of the people of Daud Nigâlemi in the land of Masr, being Yamanites, the people of Saif of the Ansar, the well known tribe of Magumi.

   • 2011 August 4, Amitav Ghosh, In An Antique Land, Granta Books, →ISBN:

     Masr had long since ceased to be the mistress of her own destiny; she had become a province of the Ottoman Empire, which was itself enfeebled now, allowed to keep its territories only by the consent of the Great Powers

2. (dated) Cairo, especially Old Cairo.
   • 1872, Coptic Church, Solomon Caesar Malan, The Divine Liturgy of Saint Mark the Evangelist, page 45:

     When once installed in his chair at Alexandria, he went back to Masr (Cairo) and ruled the Church from thence.

   • 1888, A Handbook for Travellers in Lower and upper Egypt, page 162:

     In A.D. 969 Egypt was conquered by the Fatemite Khalif el-Moëz, who transferred the centre of the government from Tunis to Masr, and built a fortress near the latter town to contain the palace

   • 1921, Quarterly Paper-Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society:

     Every step gives him a stab of pain in his swollen knee, and he has made up his mind that he must go to Masr (Cairo).

Translations

Egypt — see Egypt

Anagrams

• M.R.A.S., S/MAR, MRAs, SARM, MRSA, Mars, ASMR, MSAR, Rams, RAMs, AMRs, ASRM, rasm, arms, MARS, ARMs, mars, SRAM, rams