أبو الهول

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Arabic

Etymology

From أَب (ʔab) and هَوْل (hawl): “the dreadful one,” literally “father of dread.” Phono-semantic matching from Coptic only attested by transcription in al-Maqrīzī as بلهيب and بلهويه which in turn is likely derived from Demotic pꜣ-ḥwr (“Horon, a Canaanite god with whom the Sphinx was identified”).

Noun

أَبُو الْهَوْل • (ʔabū l-hawl) m

  1. sphinx
    • a. 1932, أَحْمَد شَوْقِيّ [ʔaḥmad šawqiyy], “أَبُو الْهَوْل [ʔabū l-hawl]”, in اَلشَّوْقِيَّات, part 1, Beirut: دَار اَلْكِتَاب الْعَرَبِيّ [dār al-kitāb al-ʕarabiyy], page 132:
      أَبَا الْهَوْلِ طَالَ عَلَيْكَ الْعُصُرْ / وَبُلِّغْتَ فِي الْأَرْضِ أَقْصَى الْعُمُرْ
      ʔabā l-hawli ṭāla ʕalayka l-ʕuṣur / wabulliḡta fī l-ʔarḍi ʔaqṣā l-ʕumur
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Declension

Declension of noun أَبُو الْهَوْل (ʔabū l-hawl)
Singular singular long construct
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal — أَبُو الْهَوْل
ʔabū l-hawl 		—
Nominative — أَبُو الْهَوْلِ
ʔabū l-hawli 		—
Accusative — أَبَا الْهَوْلِ
ʔabā l-hawli 		—
Genitive — أَبِي الْهَوْلِ
ʔabī l-hawli 		—

Descendants

References

  • Peust, Carsten (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten (Göttinger Miszellen. Beihefte; 8)‎ (in German), Göttingen, page 46
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