bꜣkw
Egyptian
Etymology
bꜣk (“to work, to render service, to pay taxes”) + -w.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈbaʀkaw/ → /ˈbaʀkaw/ → /ˈbaːkəʔ/ → /βoːk/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɑkuː/
- Conventional anglicization: baku
Noun
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- work, labor, especially hard manual labor [since the Middle Kingdom]
- work, product, result of a task [since the New Kingdom]
- execution or implementation of a design [18th Dynasty]
- taxes [since the Middle Kingdom]
- tribute (payment made in submission)
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bꜣkw
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Descendants
- Demotic:
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References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 427.13–428.15
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 78
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 111.