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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- a lithe spotted big cat, including both leopards and cheetahs; ‘panther’ .
Usage notes
This word displaced earlier bꜣ (“leopard or cheetah, ‘panther’”).
Inflection
Declension of ꜣby (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣby
Derived terms
References
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 7.11–7.14
