ꜣbḏw
Egyptian
FWOTD – 6 June 2018
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ʀaˈbaːcʼaw/ → /ʀaˈbaːtʼaw/ → /ʔəˈβoːtʼ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑbɛd͡ʒuː/
- Conventional anglicization: abedju
Etymology 1
Uncertain. A development from ꜣbw (“elephant”) + ḏw (“mountain”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘elephant of the mountain’ in reference to the local topography, has been suggested.
Proper noun
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m./f. topo.
- the city of Abydos
- (metonymically) the afterlife
- 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:
- ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw(j) m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw
- May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great of Abydos.
- 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbḏw
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| ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏwt | ꜣbḏwt | ꜣbḏw |
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbḏw
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| ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏw | ꜣbdw | ꜣbtt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- nb-ꜣbḏw
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: Ἄβῡδος (Ábūdos)
- Greek: Άβυδος (Ávydos)
- → Latin: Abȳdus, Abidos, Aboedos
- Old Coptic: ⲁⲃⲱⲧ (abōt), ⲁⲃⲟⲧ (abot)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲃⲱⲧ (ebōt)
Noun
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- (hapax) Abydenes, the people of Abydos collectively [26th Dynasty]
Noun
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- a kind of fish, often used medicinally, and mythologically said to pilot the solar barque or, in later times, to be a form of the sun god [since the medical papyri]
Usage notes
The existing pictures of this fish are too conventionalized to establish its species with any certainty. It has been suggested to be quite similar to the Nile perch, but with a crescent caudal fin.
Inflection
Declension of ꜣbḏw (masculine)
| singular | ꜣbḏw |
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| dual | ꜣbḏwwj |
| plural | ꜣbḏww |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbḏw
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| ꜣbḏw | ꜣbḏw | ꜣbd | ꜣbd | ꜣbt | ꜣbt | ꜣbḏw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [New Kingdom] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 8.23–9.2
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
- Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 12
- Dawson, Warren R. (1933) “Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts—II” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 19, p. 137
- Wegner, Josef (2007) “From Elephant-Mountain to Anubis-Mountain? A Theory on the Origins and Development of the Name Abdju” in The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of David O’Connor, volume 2, pages 459–476
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 39