jꜥj ḥr

Egyptian

Etymology

jꜥj (to wash) + ḥr (face), thus ‘to wash the face’.

Pronunciation

Verb

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Hr
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 compound

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. to be vengeful
    2. to be sharp-sighted
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jꜥj, ḥr.

Derived terms

References

  • jꜥi̯ (ḥr) (lemma ID 21600)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 39.5–39.6
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
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