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Egyptian
Etymology
ḥr (“Horus”) + ḥrw (“Horuses, lesser Horus-gods”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘Horus of the Horuses’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- epithet for various gods with a royal function
- (usually) epithet for Horus in various forms, especially as Horus of Edfu
- epithet for Ra in various forms, including Sobek-Ra and Ra of Edfu
- epithet for Amun or Amun-Ra
- (rare, attested only once) epithet for Osiris
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Derived terms
References
- “Ḥr.w-Ḥr.ww (lemma ID 862181)”, 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
- Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 274–275
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 123.11–123.13
