bḥw

See also: bhw

Egyptian

Etymology

bḥ (“to be obligated to perform corvee labor”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛhuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: behu

Noun

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1. (Late Egyptian) corvee labor

   ― jrj bḥw ― to perform corvee labor

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥw  

bḥ	bḥj

References

• “bḥ.w (lemma ID 550264)”, 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, page 468.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83