أبو الهول
Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From أَب (ʔab) and هَوْل (hawl): “the dreadful one,” literally “father of dread.” Phono-semantic matching from 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
[edit]أَبُو الْهَوْل • (ʔabū l-hawl) m
- sphinx
- a. 1932, أَحْمَد شَوْقِيّ [ʔaḥmad šawqiyy], “أَبُو الْهَوْل [ʔabū l-hawl]”, in اَلشَّوْقِيَّات, part 1, Beirut: دَار اَلْكِتَاب الْعَرَبِيّ [dār al-kitāb al-ʕarabiyy], page 132:
- أَبَا الْهَوْلِ طَالَ عَلَيْكَ الْعُصُرْ / وَبُلِّغْتَ فِي الْأَرْضِ أَقْصَى الْعُمُرْ
- ʔabā l-hawli ṭāla ʕalayka l-ʕuṣur / wabulliḡta fī l-ʔarḍi ʔaqṣā l-ʕumur
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Declension
[edit]Declension of noun أَبُو الْهَوْل (ʔabū l-hawl)
| Singular | singular long construct | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | أَبُو الْهَوْل ʔabū l-hawl |
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| Nominative | — | أَبُو الْهَوْلِ ʔabū l-hawli |
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| Accusative | — | أَبَا الْهَوْلِ ʔabā l-hawli |
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| Genitive | — | أَبِي الْهَوْلِ ʔabī l-hawli |
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Related terms
[edit]- هَرَم (haram, “pyramid”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Classical Persian: اَبُوالهَوْل (abū-l-hawl), اَبُو الهَوْل (abū l-hawl)
References
[edit]- Peust, Carsten (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten (Göttinger Miszellen. Beihefte; 8)[1] (in German), Göttingen, page 46