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Egyptian
Etymology
ḥꜣb (“festival”) + sd (“tail”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘festival of the tail’.
Pronunciation
(reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA(key): /ħaˌʀabˈsitʼ/
Proper noun
m
- the Sed festival, a jubilee festival first celebrated after a king had ruled for thirty years and thereafter every three or four years
Inflection
Declension of ḥꜣb-sd (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣb-sd
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 59.1–60.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 167
