أبو الهول

Arabic

Etymology

From أَب (ʔab) and هَوْل (hawl): “the dreadful one,” literally “father of dread.” Phono-semantic matching of Coptic only attested by transcription in al-Maqrīzī as بلهيب and بلهويه which in turn is likely derived from Demotic pꜣ-ḥwr (“Horon, a Canaanite god with whom the Sphinx was identified”).

Noun

أَبُو الْهَوْل • (ʔabū l-hawl) m

  1. sphinx

Declension
Declension of noun أَبُو الْهَوْل (ʔabū l-hawl)
Singular singular long construct
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal — أَبُو الْهَوْل
ʔabū l-hawl		 —
Nominative — أَبُو الْهَوْلِ
ʔabū l-hawli		 —
Accusative — أَبَا الْهَوْلِ
ʔabā l-hawli		 —
Genitive — أَبِي الْهَوْلِ
ʔabī l-hawli		 —

References
  • Peust, Carsten (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten (Göttinger Miszellen. Beihefte; 8)‎ (in German), Göttingen, page 46
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