ḥr-ḥrw

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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  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

Derived terms

  • ḥwt-ḥr-ḥrw
  • ḥwt-ḥr-ḥrw-nt-ḥr-ḥrw
  • ḥr-ḥrw-wnnw-mṯnw.sn
  • ḥr-ḥrw-m-ꜣḫt.f

References

  • Ḥr.w-Ḥr.ww (lemma ID 862181)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 123.11–123.13
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