ẖpꜣ

See also: hp

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈçuplVw/ → /ˈçuplVw/ → /ˈçuplə/ → /ˈçøplə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈçuplVw/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈçuplVw/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈçuplə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈçøplə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛpɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: khepa

Noun

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1. umbilical cord

   Synonym: npꜣw

   • c. 1650 BCE – 1550 BCE, Tales from Papyrus Westcar (pWestcar/pBerlin 3033) column 7:

     jꜥ.jn.sn sw šꜥd ẖpꜣ.f

     And they washed him after his umbilical cord had been cut.

2. navel

Inflection

Declension of ẖpꜣ (masculine)

singular	ẖpꜣ
dual	ẖpꜣwj
plural	ẖpꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖpꜣ  

ẖpꜣw	špꜣ

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ϧⲉⲗⲡⲓ (xelpi)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲉⲗⲡⲉ (helpe), ϩⲗⲡⲉ (hlpe)

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 297.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 365.14–365.16