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ꜣbḏw

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Egyptian

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Other romanization schemes
Manuel de Codage AbDw
Gardiner 1927 ꜣbḏw
Erman & Grapow 1926 ꜣbḏw
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete) abt′u

Etymology 1

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Uncertain. A development from ꜣbw (elephant) +‎ ḏw (mountain) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘elephant of the mountain’ in reference to the local topography, has been suggested.

Pronunciation

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  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ʀVˈbaːcʼVw//ʀVˈbaːtʼVw//ʔəˈbaːtʼə//ʔəˈβoːtʼ/

Proper noun

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AbbDw
O49

  m./f. topo.

  1. the city of Abydos
  2. (metonymically) the afterlife
    • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:
      D&d t
      n
      f
      M18iwmR4
      t p
      in
      wr
      A1Z3nw
      Z1
      AbbDw
      O49
      ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw(j) m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw
      May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great of Abydos.
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Noun

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Abbd
Dw niwt
A1B1

 m

  1. (hapax) Abydenes, the people of Abydos collectively [26th Dynasty]

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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AbbDwwad

 m

  1. a kind of fish, often used medicinally, and mythologically said to pilot the solar barque or, in later times, to be a form of the sun god [since the medical papyri]
Usage notes
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The existing pictures of this fish are too conventionalized to establish its species with any certainty. It has been suggested to be quite similar to the Nile perch, but with a crescent caudal fin.

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References

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  • Ꜣbḏ.w (lemma ID 103)”, “Ꜣbḏ.w (lemma ID 104)”, and “Ꜣbḏ.w (lemma ID 102)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 8.23–9.2
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
  • Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 12
  • Dawson, Warren R. (1933) “Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts—II” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 19, p. 137
  • Wegner, Josef (2007) “From Elephant-Mountain to Anubis-Mountain? A Theory on the Origins and Development of the Name Abdju” in The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of David O’Connor, volume 2, pages 459–476
  • Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 39