ꜣbḏw
Egyptian
FWOTD – 6 June 2018
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑbɛd͡ʒuː/
- Conventional anglicization: abedju
Proper noun
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- the city of Abydos
- (metonymically) the afterlife
- 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:
- ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw(j) m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw
- May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great of Abydos.
- 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbḏw
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Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
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- a kind of fish, often used medicinally and mythologically said to pilot the solar barque [since the medical papyri]
Usage notes
The existing pictures of this fish are too conventionalized to establish its species with any certainty.
Inflection
Declension of ꜣbḏw (masculine)
| singular | ꜣbḏw |
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| dual | ꜣbḏwwj |
| plural | ꜣbḏww |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbḏw
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References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926-1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 8.23–9.1
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
- Dawson, Warren R. (1933) “Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts—II” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 19, p. 137
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