ḥr-zꜣ-ꜣst

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ zꜣ (“son”) +‎ ꜣst (“Isis”) with the latter two elements in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘Horus, son of Isis’.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ħoːɾ siːʔ ˈʔeːsə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr zɑ ɑsɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: hor-za-aset

Proper noun

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1. the god Harsiese, a form of Horus [since the Old Kingdom]
2. a male given name, Harsiese

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-zꜣ-ꜣst  

ḥr-zꜣ-ꜣst	ḥr-zꜣ-ꜣst	ḥr-zꜣ-ꜣst	ḥr-zꜣ-ꜣst
		as a given name

Descendants

• Demotic: ḥr-sꜣ-js.t
  • Coptic: ϩⲱⲣⲥⲓⲏⲥⲉ (hōrsiēse)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἁρσιῆσις (Harsiêsis)

References

• “Ḥr.w-zꜣ-Ꜣs.t (lemma ID 853039)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 282–284
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.8
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 152
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 103–104, 263