ḥbs-bꜣg
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Egyptian
Etymology
From ḥbs (“(one that) clothes, covers, hides”) + bꜣg (“the weary”), thus ‘veiler of the weary’, with ‘the weary’ a euphemism for the dead.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /hɛbɛs bɑɡ/
- Conventional anglicization: hebes-bag
Proper noun
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- a gate in the afterworld
- the porter of this gate, a minor god
- a cavern in the afterworld
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥbs-bꜣg
References
- “ḥbs-bꜣg (lemma ID 851665)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 65.12–65.14