ꜣby

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: aby

Noun

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1. a lithe spotted big cat, including both leopards and cheetahs; ‘panther’ [since the 18th Dynasty].

Usage notes

This word displaced earlier bꜣ (“leopard or cheetah, ‘panther’”).

Inflection

Declension of ꜣby (masculine)

singular	ꜣby
dual	ꜣbywj
plural	ꜣbyw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣby  

ꜣby	ꜣby	ꜣb	ꜣby
			[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ꜣbyt
• ꜣby-šmꜥ
• ꜣby-mḥw

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 7.11–7.14