the best word that describes an ancient king and originally meant "great house" is Pharaoh
Pharaoh was the title given to ancient Egyptian kings. It comes from the Egyptian word, pero', which means great house.I'm pretty sure it means king. It also means "great house" apparently.
An Egyptian King is called a Pharaoh.
The title for an ancient Egyptian king was "Pharaoh."
King Tut
hierogliphics are how the ancient Egyptian language was written and king tut was ancient Egyptian.....
Pharaoh was the title given to ancient Egyptian kings. It comes from the Egyptian word, pero', which means great house.I'm pretty sure it means king. It also means "great house" apparently.
The word is pharaoh.
There is not one pharaoh that means "great house." The word pharaoh is Egyptian for the phrase "great house."
It doesn't stand for anything. It was just a term for a ruler, a king.
King Tutankhamen short for King Tut.
Neithhotep is thought to have been the wife of the Egyptian king Menes. Her name means literally that the "god Neith is satisfied".
King Kufu i think
The ancient Egyptian term pr-'3 (usually expressed as per-aa in modern studies) means "great house" - the palace of the ruling pharaoh. By extension it came to mean the king himself, but it was not the only term meaning king or pharaoh.
An Egyptian King is called a Pharaoh.
It is derived from the ancient Egyptian words meaning "great house", p'r-ret. In the same way as sometimes people say "We are waiting for a decision from the White House", people sometimes used the name of the palace as a name for the potentate. Thus the Hebrews called the Egyptian king after his palace.
The Pharaoh is the name that the Ancient Egyptians called their king, just as the Russians called their ruler the Czar. The word "pharaoh" is from an ancient Egyptian word meaning "great house".
The Ancient Greeks were aware of the Egyptian pyramids, and called them pyramis (plural: pyramides).The name may be Egyptian in origin, since it has no obvious etymology in Greek.yes & the original Egyptian word for the thing was actually pimar