kꜣw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑuː/
- Conventional anglicization: kau

Noun

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(uncountable) unripe sycamore figs
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 49–50:
  
  kꜣw jm ḥnꜥ nq(ꜥ)wt sšpt mj jr.t(w).s
  Unripe sycamore figs were there along with ripe ones, and muskmelons as if cultivated.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kꜣw

kꜣw

[Middle Kingdom]

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 96.14–96.16
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 283
Allen, James Peter (2015) Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 21

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