ⲧⲥⲁⲣⲅⲁⲛⲓⲁ

Coptic

Route of the Senegal, map from 1889

Etymology

Possibly from Arabic سَنْغَانَا (sanḡānā).

Proper noun

ⲧⲥⲁⲣⲅⲁⲛⲓⲁ • (tsargania) f

1. (Bohairic) Ghana (a region of West Africa) on the shores of the Senegal river.

References

• Kircher, Athanasius (1643) Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta, Romae: Hermann Scheus apud Ludouicum Grignanum, page 212