What does "Egypt" mean?

[Northern_Piper]

What does the name of the country mean? And what language is it from?

[Inner_Stickler]

Old English Egipte, from French Egypte, from Greek Aigyptos “the river Nile, Egypt,” from Amarna Hikuptah, corresponding to Egyptian Ha(t)-ka-ptah “temple of the soul of Ptah,” the creative god associated with Memphis, the ancient city of Egypt.

Strictly one of the names of Memphis, it was taken by the Greeks as the name of the whole country. The Egyptian name, Kemet, means “black country,” possibly in reference to the rich delta soil. The Arabic is Misr, which is derived from Mizraim, the name of a son of Biblical Ham.

Etymonline

[sweepkick]

Strabo attributed the word to a folk etymology in which Aígyptos (Αἴγυπτος) evolved as a compound from Aigaiou huptiōs (Aἰγαίου ὑπτίως), meaning “below the Aegean”.

Egypt

[fighting_ignorant]

The Arabic is Misr, which is derived from Mizraim, the name of a son of Biblical Ham.

MMMMM… Biblical Ham… mmmmmmm

[Carl_Pham]

OT, but the Egyptian name for Egypt is the origin of the Arabic word al-khmi (more or less “arts of the Black Land”) which became the Spanish alquimie, English alchemy and later “chemistry.” The phrase is first used in the West (so far as we know) in a proclamation Diocletian issued forbidding the practice, presumably associated with love potions, artful poisons, and assorted nostrums.