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Egyptian
Etymology
wr (“great”) + ḥkꜣw (plural of ḥkꜣ (“magic”)) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘(the one) great of magic powers’, i.e. ‘one with great magic’.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- epithet for various gods or the king
- a kind of collar
Inflection
Declension of wr-ḥkꜣw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wr-ḥkꜣw
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Noun
m
- curving serpent-headed adze or blade used as a ritual instrument in the opening of the mouth ceremony, a funerary ritual to allow the deceased to eat and drink once more
Inflection
Declension of wr-ḥkꜣw (masculine)
References
- “wr-ḥkꜣw (lemma ID 47640)” and “wr-ḥkꜣw (lemma ID 850410)”, 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 328.3–328.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64
