ḫww

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḫwj (“to protect, to avoid, to prevent”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

Noun
x
D43		 wwnDs
Z2

 m

  1. what is to be avoided or precluded
  2. particularly, evil deeds, baseness, wrongdoing [since the Middle Kingdom]
  3. ritual pollution [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫww  
x
D43		 wnDs
Z2
x
D43		 wnDs
ḫw ḫw

References
  • “ḫww (lemma ID 115150)”, 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
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 247.7–247.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 186
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