ꜣby

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbiː/
- Conventional anglicization: aby

Noun

m

a lithe spotted big cat, including both leopards and cheetahs; ‘panther’ [since the 18th Dynasty].

Usage notes

This word displaced earlier bꜣ (“leopard or cheetah, ‘panther’”).

Inflection

Declension of ꜣby (masculine)

singular

dual

ꜣbywj

plural

ꜣbyw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣby

ꜣby

ꜣby

ꜣb

ꜣby

[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

References

Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 7.11–7.14

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