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The '''Coptic calendar''', also called the '''Alexandrian calendar''', is a [[Liturgical year|liturgical calendar]] used by the [[fellah|farming populace]] in Egypt and used by the [[Coptic Orthodox]] and [[Coptic Catholic]] churches. It was used for fiscal purposes in Egypt until the [[adoption of the Gregorian calendar]] on 11 September 1875 (1st Thout 1592 AM).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4llHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1348 |title=United States Congressional Serial Set |volume=1673 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |year=1876 |page=1348 |access-date=2022-06-12 |archive-date=2022-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612052537/https://books.google.com/books?id=4llHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1348 |url-status=live}}</ref> This calendar is based on the ancient [[Egyptian calendar]]. To avoid the calendar creep of the latter (which contained only 365 days each year, year after year, so that the seasons shifted about one day every four years), a reform of the ancient Egyptian calendar was introduced at the time of [[Ptolemy III Euergetes|Ptolemy III]] ([[Decree of Canopus]], in 238 BC) which consisted of [[Intercalation (timekeeping)|adding an extra day]] every fourth year. However, this reform was opposed by the Egyptian priests, and the reform was not adopted until 25 BC, when the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] Emperor [[Augustus]] imposed the Decree upon [[Egypt]] as its official calendar (although initially, namely between 25 BC and AD 5, it was unsynchronised with the original implementation of the [[Julian calendar]] which was erroneously intercalating leap days every third year due to a misinterpretation of the leap year rule so as to apply inclusive counting).<ref name = Nabil>{{cite book |last=Nabil |first=Michael |title=A Brief History of Patriarchs Coptic Church |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byuYAgAAQBAJ |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing |page=7 |access-date=2022-09-13 |archive-date=2022-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930050131/https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/A_Brief_History_of_Patriarchs_Coptic_Chu/byuYAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live}}</ref> To distinguish it from the Ancient Egyptian calendar, which remained in use by some astronomers until medieval times, this reformed calendar is known as the Coptic or Alexandrian calendar. Its years and months coincide with those of the [[Ethiopian calendar]] but have different numbers and names.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tamrat |first=Tadesse |date=2008 |title=Ethiopian Calendar & Millennia Highlights |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27828897 |journal=International Journal of Ethiopian Studies |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=177–88 |jstor=27828897 |access-date=13 September 2022 |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913010230/https://www.jstor.org/stable/27828897 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Unlike the [[Gregorian calendar]], the Coptic calendar does not skip leap years three times every 400 years, and therefore it stays synchronised with the Julian calendar over a four-year leap year cycle.<ref>According to {{cite web |title=Conversion of Coptic and Julian dates |url=http://www.oriold.uzh.ch/static/coptic.html |publisher=Universität Zürich|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227011131/http://www.oriold.uzh.ch/static/coptic.html |archive-date=2007-12-27 }} Coptic dates corresponding to Julian dates separated by multiples of four years, or multiples of 100 years, all give the same day and month.</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fr. John Ramzy |title=The Glorious Feast of Nativity: 7 January? 29 Kiahk? 25 December? |url=http://www.suscopticdiocese.org/messages/nativitydate.html |publisher=Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020620170143/http://www.suscopticdiocese.org/messages/nativitydate.html |archive-date=2002-06-20 }} States that Christmas has always been celebrated on 29 Kiahk in the Coptic calendar, and that this is equivalent to 25 December in the Julian calendar.</ref>

== Coptic year ==
{{Liturgical year}}
The Coptic year is the extension of the ancient Egyptian civil year, retaining its subdivision into the three seasons, four months each. The three seasons are commemorated by special prayers in the Coptic Liturgy. This calendar is still in use all over Egypt by farmers to keep track of the various agricultural seasons.<ref name = Naguib>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Survivals of Pharaonic Religious Practices in Contemporary Coptic Christianity |encyclopedia=UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology |year=2008 |last=Naguib |first=Saphinaz-Amal |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27v9z5m8 |access-date=13 September 2022 |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920234953/https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27v9z5m8 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Coptic calendar has 13 months, 12 of 30 days each and one at the end of the year of five days (six days in leap years). The Coptic Leap Year follows the same rules as the Julian Calendar so that the extra month always has six days in the year before a Julian Leap Year.<ref name = FrTadros>{{cite report |author=Fr Tadros Y Malaty |date=1988 |title=The Coptic Calendar and Church of Alexandria. |url=http://www.coptics.info/NEW_ARTICLES2/Others/Z_done/The_Coptic_Calendar_And_The_Church_Of_Alexandria.docx |publisher=The Monastery of St. Macarius Press, The Desert of Scete |access-date=13 September 2022 |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913010235/http://www.coptics.info/NEW_ARTICLES2/Others/Z_done/The_Coptic_Calendar_And_The_Church_Of_Alexandria.docx |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

The year starts on the Feast of [[Neyrouz]], the first day of the month of [[Thout]], the first month of the Egyptian year. For 1900 to 2099 it coincides with the Gregorian Calendar's 11 September, or 12 September before a leap year, but for any year, it coincides with the Julian Calendar's 29 August, or 30 August before a leap year. Coptic years are counted from 284&nbsp;AD, the year [[Diocletian]] became Roman Emperor, whose reign was marked by tortures and mass executions of Christians, especially in Egypt.<ref name = FrTadros /> Hence, the Coptic year is identified by the abbreviation A.M. (for ''[[Anno Martyrum]]'' or "in the Year of the Martyrs"). The first day of year I of the Coptic era was 29 August 284 in the Julian calendar. Note that the abbreviation A.M. is also used for unrelated calendar eras (such as the Freemasonic and Jewish calendar epochs) which start at the putative creation of the world; it then stands for ''[[Anno Mundi]]''.

[[Easter]] is reckoned by the Julian Calendar in combination with the uncorrected repetition of the 19-year [[Metonic cycle]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Vidro |first=Nadia |date=2021 |title=Muslim and Christian calendars in Jewish calendar booklets: TS K2. 33. |url=https://aspace.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/335181/Fragment%20of%20the%20Month%20March%202021%20Cambridge%20University%20Library.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y |quote=The Coptic date of Easter is determined by a calculation based on the Alexandrian 19-year cycle, which synchronises the lunar months with the solar years of the Coptic calendar. |access-date=2022-09-13 |archive-date=2022-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913055146/https://aspace.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/335181/Fragment%20of%20the%20Month%20March%202021%20Cambridge%20University%20Library.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y |url-status=live}}</ref>

To obtain the Coptic year number, subtract from the Julian year number either 283 (before the Julian new year) or 284 (after it).

== Date of Christmas ==
Coptic Christmas is observed on what the Julian Calendar labels 25 December, a date that currently corresponds with 7 January on the more widely used [[Gregorian Calendar]] (which is also when Christmas is observed in many [[Eastern Orthodox]] countries such as Russia). The 25 December Nativity of [[Christ]] was alleged very early by [[Hippolytus (writer)|Hippolytus]] of [[Rome]] (170–236) in his Commentary on Daniel 4:23: "The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam."{{Refn|group=note|Correction: the actual quote from Hippolytus is "For as the times are noted from the foundation of the world, and reckoned from Adam, they set clearly before us the matter with which our inquiry deals. For the first appearance of our Lord in the flesh took place in Bethlehem, under Augustus, in the year 5500; and He suffered in the thirty-third year."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf05/anf05.iii.iv.i.x.ii.html |publisher=Christian Classics Ethereal Library |title=Ante-Nicene Fathers |volume=5 |last1=Schaff |first1=Philip |page=446 |access-date=2022-03-02 |archive-date=2022-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302124046/https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf05/anf05.iii.iv.i.x.ii.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The insertion of "eight days..." is from "[[Chronography of 354]]" and the insertion of the "forty-second year" is from [[Eusebius]].}} "Another early source is Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea (115–181): "We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen."<ref>Magdeburgenses, Cent. 2. c. 6. Hospinian, de origine Festorum Christianorum</ref>{{refn|group=note|Another correction: Theophilus of Caesarea only said the following: "We would have you know, too, that in Alexandria also they observe ''the festival'' on the same day as ourselves. For the ''Paschal'' letters are sent from us to them, and from them to us: so that we observe the holy day in unison and together." No mention of Dec. 25th.}} However, it was not until 367 that 25 December began to be universally accepted. Before that, the Eastern Church had kept 6 January as the Nativity under the name "Epiphany." John Chrysostom, in a sermon preached in Antioch in 387, relates how the correct date of the Nativity was brought to the East ten years earlier.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://earlychurchtexts.com/public/john_chrysostom_homily_in_diem_natalem_domini_nostri_jesu_christi.htm |title=John Chrysostom - Homily on the Date of Christmas, sections 1 and 2 |last=Maguire |first=Revd Andrew |access-date=13 September 2022 |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913055145/https://earlychurchtexts.com/public/john_chrysostom_homily_in_diem_natalem_domini_nostri_jesu_christi.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Dionysius of Alexandria]] emphatically quoted mystical justifications for this very choice. 25 March was considered to be the anniversary of Creation itself. It was the first day of the year in the medieval Julian, or Old Style, calendar and the nominal vernal equinox (it had been the actual equinox at the time of the Decree of Canopus in terms of the Julian calendar which adopted it without correction when originally designed). Considering that Jesus was thought to have been conceived on New Year's Day of the Old Style calendar, 25 March was recognised as the Feast of the Annunciation which had to be followed, nine months later, by the celebration of the birth of Christ, [[Christmas]], on 25 December.

There may have been more practical considerations for choosing 25 December. The choice would help substitute a major Christian holiday for the popular Pagan celebrations surrounding the Winter Solstice (Roman Sol Sticia, the three-day stasis when the sun would rise consecutively in its southernmost point before heading north, 21, 22 and 23 December. In AD 274, Emperor [[Aurelian]] had declared a civil holiday on 25 December (the "[[Sol Invictus#Festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti|Festival of the Birth of the Unconquered Sun]]") to celebrate the deity [[Sol Invictus]]. Finally, joyous festivals are needed at that time of year to fight the natural gloom of the season (in the [[Northern Hemisphere]]).<ref name="MacMullen1997">Bishop Jacob Bar-Salabi (cited in ''Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries'', [[Ramsay MacMullen]]. Yale:1997, p. 155)</ref>

Until the 16th century, 25 December coincided with 29 [[Koiak]] of the Coptic calendar. However, upon the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, 25 December shifted 10 days earlier in comparison with the Julian and Coptic calendars. Furthermore, the Gregorian calendar drops 3 leap days every 400 years to closely approximate the length of a solar year. As a result, the Coptic Christmas advances a day each time the Gregorian calendar drops a leap day (years AD 1700, 1800, and 1900).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/calendars |title=Introduction to Calendars |website=[[United States Naval Observatory]] |access-date=2022-09-30 |archive-date=2022-06-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617074100/https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/calendars |url-status=live}}</ref> This is the reason why Old-Calendarists (using the Julian and Coptic calendars) presently celebrate Christmas on 7 January, 13 days after the New-Calendarists (using the Gregorian calendar), who celebrate Christmas on 25 December. From AD 2101, the Coptic Christmas will be on the Gregorian date of 8 January.

== Date of Easter ==
{{See also|Computus}}
The First Council of Nicaea (325) sent a letter to the Church of Alexandria stating "all our brethren in the East who formerly followed the custom of the Jews are henceforth to celebrate the said most sacred feast of Easter at the same time with the Romans and yourselves and all those who have observed Easter from the beginning."<ref>{{Cite book |editor1-last=Schaff |editor1-first=Philip |editor2-last=Wace |editor2-first=Henry |publication-date=1890 |title=The Synodal Letter |series=Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series |year=1986 |volume=14, The Seven Ecumenical Councils |pages=112–114 |place=[[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], U.S.A. |publisher=Eerdmans Pub Co. |isbn=0-8028-8129-7 |url=https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.vii.ix.html |access-date=2020-07-05 |archive-date=2021-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117202530/https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.vii.ix.html |url-status=live}} (http://www.tertullian.org/fathers2/NPNF2-14/Npnf2-14-27.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928145035/http://www.tertullian.org/fathers2/NPNF2-14/Npnf2-14-27.htm |date=2020-09-28 }})</ref>

At the Council of Nicaea, it became one of the duties of the [[patriarch of Alexandria]] to determine the dates of the Easter and to announce it to the other Christian churches.<ref>{{cite book |last=Declercq |first=Georges |title=Anno Domini: The Origins of the Christian Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8AZAAAAYAAJ |year=2000 |publisher=Isd |isbn=978-2-503-51050-7}}</ref> This duty fell on this officiate because of the erudition at Alexandria he could draw on. The rules to determine this are complex, but Easter is the first Sunday after a full moon occurring after the northern [[March equinox|vernal equinox]], which falls on or after 21 March in Alexandria. When [[Julius Caesar]] reformed the calendar, the northern vernal equinox was nominally on 25 March which was abandoned shortly after Nicaea. The reason for the observed discrepancy was all but ignored (the actual [[tropical year]] is not quite equal to the Julian year of 365{{frac|1|4}} days, so the date of the equinox keeps creeping back in the Julian calendar).

Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, there are different dates for holidays. In recent years there have been multiple attempts to [[Reform of the date of Easter|unify these dates]]. Some people are skeptical about the success of these attempts. Eastern Orthodox use the Julian calendar while Catholics use the Gregorian calendar. [[Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria|Pope Tawadros]], the Coptic pope, and [[Pope Francis]], the Catholic pope, agreed to the proposal to celebrate Easter on the same day. Pope Tawadros suggested to celebrate Easter on the second Sunday of April.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-25 |title=Popes Francis and Tawadros agree one Easter for all |url=https://en.wataninet.com/coptic-affairs-coptic-affairs/church-affairs/popes-francis-and-tawadros-agree-one-easter-for-all/14914/ |access-date=2023-05-27 |website=Watani |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Coptic months ==
The following table refers to dates for Coptic years not containing [[29 February]]. Such years are preceded by a Coptic [[leap day]] at the end of the preceding year. This causes dates to move one day later in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars from the Coptic New Year's Day until the leap day of the Julian or Gregorian Calendar respectively.

{| class="wikitable"
!rowspan=2|No.
!colspan=4|Name
! rowspan="2" |[[Ethiopian calendar]]
!rowspan=2|Julian calendar dates
!rowspan=2|Gregorian calendar dates (1900–2099)
!rowspan=2|Season
!rowspan=2|Coptic name origin<ref>{{cite book |last1=Černý |first1=Jaroslav |title=Coptic Etymological Dictionary |date=1976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-07228-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vycichl |first1=Werner |title=Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Copte |date=1983 |publisher=Peeters |location=Leuven |isbn=978-2-8017-0197-3}}</ref>
|-
![[Bohairic]]<br />[[Coptic language|Coptic]]
![[Sahidic]]<br />[[Coptic language|Coptic]]
![[Transliteration|Trans{{shy}}literation]]
![[Egyptian Arabic|Arabic]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hinds |first1=Martin |last2=Badawi |first2=El-Said |title=A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic: Arabic-English |date=1986 |publisher=Librairie du Liban |location=Beirut |isbn=978-0-8288-0434-9}}</ref><br />[[pronunciation]]<br />{{clarify|post-text= – [[Talk:Coptic calendar#Arabic pronunciation?|discuss]]|date=June 2024}}
|-
|1 || {{lang|cop|Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲑⲟⲟⲩⲧ}} || [[Thout]] || {{lang|ar|توت}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Tūt''}} 
|Mäskäräm (መስከረም)|| 29 August – 27 September || 11 September – 10 October || rowspan="4" |Akhet ([[Season of the Inundation|Inundation]]) || {{lang|egy|ḏḥwty}}: [[Thoth]], god of Wisdom and Science
|-
|2 || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁⲟⲡⲓ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁⲱⲡⲉ}} || [[Paopi]] || {{lang|ar|بابه}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Bābah''}} 
|Ṭəqəmt(i) (ጥቅምት)|| 28 September – 27 October || 11 October – 9 November ||  {{lang|egy|pꜣ-n-jpt}}: [[Opet Festival]]
|-
|3 || {{lang|cop|Ⲁⲑⲱⲣ}} || {{lang|cop|Ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ}} || [[Hathor (month)|Hathor]] || {{lang|ar|هاتور}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Hātūr''}} 
|Ḫədar (ኅዳር)|| 28 October – 26 November || 10 November – 9 December || {{lang|egy|Ḥwt-ḥr}}: [[Hathor]], goddess of beauty and love (the land is lush and green)
|-
|4 || {{lang|cop|Ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲕⲟⲓⲁϩⲕ}} || [[Koiak]] || {{lang|ar|كياك}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Kyak''}}
|Taḫśaś ( ታኅሣሥ)|| 27 November – 26 December || 10 December – 8 January || {{lang|egy|kꜣ-ḥr-kꜣ}}: "spirit upon spirit," the name of a festival
|-
|5 || {{lang|cop|Ⲧⲱⲃⲓ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲧⲱⲃⲉ}} || [[Tobi (month)|Tobi]] || {{lang|ar|طوبه}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Ṭūbah''}} 
|Ṭərr(i) (ጥር)|| 27 December – 25 January || 9 January – 7 February || rowspan="4" | Proyet, Peret, Poret ([[Season of the Emergence|Growth]]) || {{lang|egy|tꜣ-ꜥꜣbt}}: "The offering"
|-
|6 || {{lang|cop|Ⲙⲉϣⲓⲣ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲙϣⲓⲣ}} || [[Meshir]] || {{lang|ar|أمشير}} {{Transliteration|ar|''ʾAmshīr''}} 
|Yäkatit (Tn. Läkatit) (የካቲት)|| 26 January – 24 February || 8 February – 8 March || {{lang|egy|mḫjr}}: The name of a festival, perhaps identical with a type of basket used in that festival
|-
|7 || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁⲣⲉⲙϩⲁⲧ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁⲣⲙϩⲟⲧⲡ}} || [[Paremhat]] || {{lang|ar|برمهات}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Baramhāt''}} 
|Mägabit (መጋቢት)|| 25 February – 26 March || 9 March – 8 April || {{lang|egy|pꜣ-n-jmnḥtp}}: "Festival of [[Amenhotep I|Amenhotep]]"
|-
|8 || {{lang|cop|Ⲫⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲓ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ}} || [[Parmouti]] || {{lang|ar|برموده}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Baramūdah''}} 
|Miyazya (ሚያዝያ)|| 27 March – 25 April || 9 April – 8 May || {{lang|egy|pꜣ-n-Rnnwtt}}: "Festival of harvest goddess [[Renenutet]]"
|-
|9 || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁϣⲟⲛⲥ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁϣⲟⲛⲥ}} || [[Pashons]] || {{lang|ar|بشنس}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Bashans''}} 
|Gənbo (t) (ግንቦት)|| 26 April – 25 May || 9 May – 7 June || rowspan="5" |Shomu or Shemu ([[Season of the Harvest|Harvest]]) || {{lang|egy|pꜣ-n-ḫnsw}} "Festival of [[Khonsu]]"
|-
|10 || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲓ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲉ}} || [[Paoni]] || {{lang|ar|بأونه}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Baʾūnah''}} 
|Säne (ሰኔ)|| 26 May – 24 June || 8 June – 7 July || {{lang|egy|pꜣ-n-jnt}}: valley festival
|-
|11 || {{lang|cop|Ⲉⲡⲓⲡ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲉⲡⲏⲡ}} || [[Epip]] || {{lang|ar|أبيب}} {{Transliteration|ar|''ʾAbīb''}} 
|Ḥamle (ሐምሌ)|| 25 June – 24 July || 8 July – 6 August || {{lang|egy|jpjp}}: meaning unknown
|-
|12 || {{lang|cop|Ⲙⲉⲥⲱⲣⲓ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲙⲉⲥⲱⲣⲏ}} || [[Mesori]] || {{lang|ar|مسرا}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Mesra''}}
|Nähase (ነሐሴ)|| 25 July – 23 August || 7 August – 5 September || {{lang|egy|mswt rꜥ}}: birth of [[Ra]]
|-
|13 || {{lang|cop|Ⲡⲓⲕⲟⲩϫⲓ ⲛ̀ⲁ̀ⲃⲟⲧ}} || {{lang|cop|Ⲉⲡⲁⲅⲟⲙⲉⲛⲁⲓ}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crum |first1=W.E. |title=A Coptic Dictionary |date=1939 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |page=54}}</ref> || [[Pi Kogi Enavot]] || {{lang|ar|نسيئ}} {{Transliteration|ar|''Nasīʾ''}} 
|Ṗagʷəmen/Ṗagume (ጳጐሜን/ጳጉሜ)|| 24 August – 28 August || 6 September – 10 September|| Bohairic: The Little Month;<br />
Sahidic: Greek {{lang|grc|ἐπαγόμεναι}} < {{lang|grc|ἐπαγωγή}} < {{lang|grc|ἐπαγειν}} < {{lang|grc|ἐπι + ἄγειν}}: to bring in
|}

== Literature ==
* Wolfgang Kosack: ''Der koptische Heiligenkalender.'' The Calendar of the Coptic Holies. Deutsch – Koptisch – Arabisch nach den besten Quellen neu bearbeitet und vollständig herausgegeben mit Index Sanctorum koptischer Heiliger, Index der Namen auf Koptisch, Koptische Patriarchenliste, Geografische Liste. Christoph Brunner, Berlin 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-9524018-4-2}}.

== See also ==
* [[Egyptian calendar]]
* [[Ethiopian calendar]]
* [[Computus]]
* [[Era of the Martyrs]]

==Notes==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Coptic calendar}}
* [http://www.copticchurch.net/easter.html The Coptic Calendar of Martyrs]
* [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2842 "Seasonal Almanac Based on the Coptic Calendar"] is an Arabic manuscript from 1678.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060928041231/http://www.copticheritage.org/parameters/copticheritage/calendar/The_Coptic_Calendar.pdf The Coptic Calendar by Bishoy K. R. Dawood] (1.29MB pdf file – historical development and technical discussion)
* [http://www.copticchurch.net/easter.html An introduction to the Coptic calendar] (Gregorian equivalents are valid only between 1900 and 2099)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080508002335/http://www.andrewfanous.com/CopticCorner/CopticCalendar.htm Ancient Egyptian Calendar and Coptic Calendar]

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