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Egyptian
Etymology
bḥ (“to be obligated to perform corvee labor”) + -w.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (Late Egyptian) corvee labor
- ― jrj bḥw ― to perform corvee labor
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥw
References
- “bḥ.w (lemma ID 550264)”, 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, page 468.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83
