bhꜣw
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Egyptian
Etymology
bhꜣ (“to flee, to turn tail”) + -w (agent nominalizer).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɛhɑuː/
- Conventional anglicization: behau
Noun
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- person on the retreat or in flight, fugitive, retreater
- c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 56:
- pḏ nmtwt pw sk.f bhꜣw
- He is one who strides widely when he destroys the fleeing man.
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References
- “bhꜣ.w (lemma ID 56720)”, 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 467.9, 467.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83