bḥn

See also: bhn and BHN

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛhɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: behen

Etymology 1

From bḥnj (“to dismember, to punish, to eliminate”).

Noun

 m

1. dismemberment (act) [Book of the Dead]

Etymology 2

From bḥnw (“to bark”) (unattested underlying form probably *bḥn), thus literally ‘barker’.

Noun

 m

1. dog [Book of the Dead]

Inflection

Declension of bḥn (masculine)

singular	bḥn
dual	bḥnwj
plural	bḥnw

References

• “bḥn (lemma ID 56840)” and “bḥn (lemma ID 56850)”, 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 468.18, 468.20