wzfw

Egyptian

Etymology

wzf (“to neglect”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛzɛfuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: wezefu

Noun

 m

1. neglectful or negligent person, idler, sluggard, shirker

Inflection

Declension of wzfw (masculine)

singular	wzfw
dual	wzfwwj
plural	wzfww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wzfw  

wsfw	wzfw	wzfw	wzfw
			[18th Dynasty]

References

• “wzf.w (lemma ID 49550)”, 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 357.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 68
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132.