ḥwt-ḥr-ḥrw

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥwt (“enclosure”) +‎ ḥr-ḥrw (“Horus of the Horuses”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘the enclosure of Horus of the Horuses’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /huːt hɛr hɛruː/
  • Conventional anglicization: hut-hor-horu

Proper noun

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1. the temple at Edfu [Greco-Roman Period]
2. the town of Edfu itself [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwt-ḥr-ḥrw  

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References

• “Ḥw.t-Ḥr.w-Ḥr.ww (lemma ID 858720)”, 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.12
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 1133