ḥbs-ḫprw

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥbs (“clothed, covered, hidden”) +‎ ḫprw (“form”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘(the one) veiled of form’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛbɛs xɛpɛruː/
- Conventional anglicization: hebes-kheperu

Noun

m

title of a Lycopolitan priest [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of ḥbs-ḫprw (masculine)

singular	ḥbs-ḫprw
dual	ḥbswj-ḫprw
plural	ḥbsw-ḫprw

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 65.11

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