ḥꜣb-wr
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Egyptian
Etymology
ḥꜣb (“festival”) + wr (“big, great”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /hɑb wɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: hab-wer
Proper noun
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- the Great Festival, one of the festivals at which offerings were given to the dead
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ḥꜣb, wr.
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 57.19–57.20