ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ pꜣ (“the”) +‎ ẖrd (“child”), thus ‘Horus the Child’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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  1. the god Horus the Child or Harpocrates [since the 21st Dynasty]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd  

ḥr-p-ẖrd ḥr-p-ẖrd ḥr-p-ẖrd ḥr-ẖrd

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Ἁρποκράτης (Harpokrátēs)

References

  • “Ḥr.w-pꜣ-ẖrd (lemma ID 853040)”, 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
  • 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 281–282
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.6
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