bhn
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Bohtan.
Symbol
bhn
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Bohtan Neo-Aramaic terms
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɛhɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: behen
Noun
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- a kind of article of clothing. The meaning of this term is uncertain.
- used in ḥbs bhn (“to protect”)
Inflection
| singular | bhn |
|---|---|
| dual | bhnwj |
| plural | bhnw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bhn
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| bhn |
References
- “bhn (lemma ID 859161)”, 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, page 467.10
- Fox, Michael V. (1985) The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs, page 58, note f