From 'Hut-ka-Ptah,' a temple name foreigners applied to the whole country. Egyptians called it Kemet, 'Black Land.'
The ancient language of Egypt, attested from c. 3200 BCE to the medieval period, the longest documented language history in the world; also used for the people and civilization of Egypt.
From Latin 'Aegyptius,' from Greek 'Aigýptios' (Αἰγύπτιος), from 'Aígyptos' (Αἴγυπτος), the Greek name for Egypt. The Greek name is widely believed to derive from 'Ḥwt-kꜣ-Ptḥ' (Hut-ka-Ptah), meaning 'House of the ka (soul) of Ptah,' the name of the great temple of the god Ptah in Memphis — the first Egyptian city most foreigners encountered. The Egyptians called their own country 'Kmt' (Kemet), meaning 'the Black Land
Egypt's name in English derives from 'Hut-ka-Ptah,' the name of a single temple in Memphis — as if the entire United States were named after a church in New York. Meanwhile, the Egyptians' own name for their country, 'Kemet' (the Black Land), referred to the fertile dark soil of the Nile floodplain. The Arabic name for Egypt, 'Miṣr,' has yet another origin, from the Akkadian 'Miṣru' (border