bw ḏsr

Egyptian

Etymology

bw (“place, thing, -ness”) +‎ ḏsr (“sacred”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /buː d͡ʒɛsɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: bu djeser

Noun

 m

1. sanctum, sanctuary, sacred room in a temple [since the 19th Dynasty]

References

• “bw-ḏsr (lemma ID 550357)”, 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 452.4