أبو الهول

Arabic

Etymology

From أَب (ʔab) and هَوْل (hawl): “the dreadful one,” literally “father of dread.” Phono-semantic matching of Coptic only attested by transcription in al-Maqrīzī as بلهيب and بلهويه which in turn is likely derived from Demotic pꜣ-ḥwr (“Horon, a Canaanite god with whom the Sphinx was identified”).

Noun

أَبُو الْهَوْل • (ʔabū l-hawl) m

1. sphinx

Declension

Declension of noun أَبُو الْهَوْل (ʔabū l-hawl)

Singular	singular long construct
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	أَبُو الْهَوْل ʔabū l-hawl	—
Nominative	—	أَبُو الْهَوْلِ ʔabū l-hawli	—
Accusative	—	أَبَا الْهَوْلِ ʔabā l-hawli	—
Genitive	—	أَبِي الْهَوْلِ ʔabī l-hawli	—

Related terms

• هَرَم (haram, “pyramid”)

References

• Peust, Carsten (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten (Göttinger Miszellen. Beihefte; 8)‎^[1] (in German), Göttingen, page 46