ḥr-wr

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ wr (“great, elder”), thus ‘the elder Horus’, ‘Horus the Elder’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun
G5wr
r

 m

  1. the god Horus the Elder [since the Middle Kingdom]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-wr  
G106
A19
G5A20
G5Z1
H_SPACE		 A19A40
G5Z1
H_SPACE		 A19WG7
G5G7A19G7G7
G5Z1
H_SPACE		 wr
r		 nTr
G5Z1
H_SPACE
Z9

D153
G12
G161
G162
ḥr-wr ḥr-wr ḥr-wr ḥr-wrw ḥr-wr ḥr-wr ḥr-wr ḥr-wr ḥr-wr ḥr-wr

Descendants
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἁροῆρις (Haroêris)

References
  • “Ḥr.w-wr (lemma ID 550351)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 249–251
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 327.10
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.5
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