أبو الهول
Arabic
Etymology
From أَب (ʾab) and هَوْل (hawl): “the dreadful one,” literally “father of dread.” Phono-semantic matching of Coptic only attested by transcription in al-Maqrīzī as بلهيب and بلهويه which in turn is likely derived from Demotic pꜣ-Ḥwr (“Horon, a Canaanite god with whom the Sphinx was identified”).
Noun
أَبُو الْهَوْل • (ʾabū l-hawl) m
- sphinx
Declension
Declension of noun أَبُو الْهَوْل (ʾabū l-hawl)
| Singular | singular long construct | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | أَبُو الْهَوْل ʾabū l-hawl | — |
| Nominative | — | أَبُو الْهَوْلِ ʾabū l-hawli | — |
| Accusative | — | أَبَا الْهَوْلِ ʾabā l-hawli | — |
| Genitive | — | أَبِي الْهَوْلِ ʾabī l-hawli | — |
Related terms
- هَرَم (haram, “pyramid”)
References
- Peust, Carsten (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten (Göttinger Miszellen. Beihefte; 8) (in German), Göttingen, page 46