ḫww

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḫwj (“to protect, to avoid, to prevent”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xuːʔuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: khuu

Noun

 m

1. what is to be avoided or precluded
2. particularly, evil deeds, baseness, wrongdoing [since the Middle Kingdom]
3. ritual pollution [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫww  

ḫw	ḫw

References

• “ḫww (lemma ID 115150)”, 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, pages 247.7–247.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 186