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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From bḥnj (“to dismember, to punish, to eliminate”).
Noun
m
- dismemberment (act)
Etymology 2
From bḥnw (“to bark”) (unattested underlying form probably *bḥn), thus literally ‘barker’.
Noun
m
- dog
Inflection
Declension of bḥn (masculine)
References
- “bḥn (lemma ID 56840)” and “bḥn (lemma ID 56850)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.18, 468.20
