ẖpꜣ

See also: hp

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈçuplVw/ → /ˈçuplVw/ → /ˈçuplə/ → /ˈçøplə/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛpɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: khepa

Noun

m

umbilical cord
Synonym: npꜣw
- c. 1650 BCE – 1550 BCE, Tales from Papyrus Westcar (pWestcar/pBerlin 3033) column 7:
  
  jꜥ.jn.sn sw šꜥd ẖpꜣ.f
  And they washed him after his umbilical cord had been cut.
navel

Inflection

Declension of ẖpꜣ (masculine)

singular	ẖpꜣ
dual	ẖpꜣwj
plural	ẖpꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖpꜣ

Aa2

F51

N33

ẖpꜣw

špꜣ

Descendants

Bohairic Coptic: ϧⲉⲗⲡⲓ (xelpi)
Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲉⲗⲡⲉ (helpe), ϩⲗⲡⲉ (hlpe)

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 297.
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 365.14–365.16

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