ḥr-ḥrw

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Egyptian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ ḥrw (“Horuses, lesser Horus-gods”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘Horus of the Horuses’.

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

G5G5G5G5

 m

  1. epithet for various gods with a royal function
    1. (usually) epithet for Horus in various forms, especially as Horus of Edfu [Greco-Roman Period]
    2. epithet for Ra in various forms, including Sobek-Ra and Ra of Edfu [New Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]
    3. epithet for Amun or Amun-Ra [Greco-Roman Period]
    4. (rare, attested only once) epithet for Osiris [19th Dynasty]

Alternative forms[edit]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-ḥrw  
G5G5Z2ss
H_SPACE
G5Z1
H_SPACE		 G5Z1 Z1
H_SPACE
G5G7G5G7Z3A
G5Z1
H_SPACE		 G5Z1
H_SPACE		 G5Z1
H_SPACE
G5G5G5
G100
Z3
ḥr-ḥrw ḥr-ḥrw ḥr-ḥrw ḥr-ḥrw ḥr-ḥrw ḥr-ḥrw

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “Ḥr.w-Ḥr.ww (lemma ID 862181)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 274–275
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 123.11–123.13
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