bhꜣw

Egyptian

Etymology

bhꜣ (“to flee, to turn tail”) +‎ -w (agent nominalizer).

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. person on the retreat or in flight, fugitive, retreater [Middle Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]
    • 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.

Inflection

Declension of bhꜣw (masculine)
singular bhꜣw
dual bhꜣwwj
plural bhꜣww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bhꜣw  

bhꜣw bhꜣ bht
[Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period]

References

  • “bhꜣ.w (lemma ID 56720)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], 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[2], 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
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