ḥr-m-ꜥḥ.f

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ m (“in”) +‎ ꜥḥ (“palace”) +‎ .f (“his”), thus “Horus in his palace”. Compare ḥr-m-pr.f.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr ɛm ɑːhʔɛf/
- Conventional anglicization: hor-em-ah.ef

Noun

m

(in compounds) an epithet of the king [since the New Kingdom[1]]

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 214.17

Grapow, Hermann, et al. (1897–1939) Das digitalisierte Zettelarchiv des “Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache” (DZA)‎, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, published 1999, DZA 21.917.590

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