hꜣw

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See also: ḥꜣw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

hAwY1
Z2

 m

  1. vicinity, surroundings, neighborhood
    • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 55–56:[1]
      ia
      N35B      		 Hr Z1
      p      		 wt
      SA      		 Z9
      D36      		 wp
      t Z1      		 Z2
      D35      		 aHaa
      D54      		 n
      t W      		 mhAW
      H_SPACE      		 Y1
      Z2      		 f
      jꜥ ḥr pw tšꜣ wpwt nj ꜥḥꜥ.n.tw m hꜣw.f
      He is one who takes vengeance (literally, “one who washes the face”), one who smashes brows; one cannot stand in his vicinity.
  2. situation
  3. (of the king) reign
  4. (temporal) time
  5. family

Descendants

  • Demotic: hꜣ
    • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲏ (hē)

References

  1. ^ Allen, James Peter (2015) Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 81–83
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