ꜥꜣpp

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ʕVʀˈpaːpVw/ → /ʕVʀˈpaːpVw/ → /ʕaˈpaːpə/ → /ʕaˈpoːp/

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

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

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

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑpɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: aapep

Proper noun

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1. Apep/Apophis, the evil being who tries to devour the sun every night, often depicted in the form of a vast water snake [since the Book of the Dead]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣpp  

ꜥpp	ꜥꜣpp
[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥpp, ꜥpꜥp
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲫⲱⲫ (aphōph)
• Ancient Greek: Ἄπωφις (Ápōphis), Ἄποπις (Ápopis)

References

• “ꜥꜣpp (lemma ID 35360)”, 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 167.14–167.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38