bddw-kꜣ

Egyptian
FWOTD – 24 July 2013
bd
d		 wD28
D52		 M2
Z2

Etymology

bdd (“a kind of plant”) +‎ kꜣ (“bull”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

Noun
bd
d		 wkA
D52		 M2
Z2

 m

  1. watermelon [Middle Kingdom and Medical papyri]
    • c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus, lines 43.2–43.4 (Eb 208):
      k
      t      		 F46
      r t      		 N33C
      Z2ss      		 n
      t      		 d
      r      		 A24Sn
      n      		 a
      U13      		 F51mrZ1ibZ1
      t
      X2      		 X4
      Z2      		 n
      n      		 bsM1N33C
      Z2ss
       
      		Z1
       
      		bd
      d      		 WkA
      D52      		 Hn
      Z2ss
       
      		Z1
      riit
      Aa2      		 Z3miiWF27
       
      		Z1
       
      		Hq
      t      		 W22
      Z2ss      		 nDmmt
      Y1
       
      		Z1
       
      		ir
      p      		 W22
      Z2ss
       
      		Z1
      irmx
      t      		 Y1
      Z2      		 wa
      a      		 tZ1
       
      		Aa2
      D40      		 Hr
      r      		 s
      kt pẖrt nt dr šnꜥ m r(ꜣ)-jb t n(j) nbs 1 bddw-kꜣ 1 ryt mjw 1 ḥ(n)qt nḏmt 1 jrp 1 jr m ḫt wꜥt wt ḥr.s
      Another remedy for driving out constipation (lit. obstruction in the stomach): bread of the Christ's thorn jujube (1); watermelon (1); excretion of a cat (1); sweet beer (1); wine (1). Combine to make a paste (lit. make into one thing) and bandage over it.[1][2]

Inflection
Declension of bddw-kꜣ (masculine)
singular bddw-kꜣ
dual bddwj-kꜣ
plural bddww-kꜣ

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bddw-kꜣ  
bd
d		 wD52
w		 M2
Z2
bddw-kꜣw

References
  • “bdd.w-kꜣ (lemma ID 861516)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 488.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 86
  1. Lise Manniche, An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, University of Texas Press, 1989
  2. Wreszinski, Walter (1913) Der Papyrus Ebers: Umschrift, Übersetzung und Kommentar (volume III of Die Medizin der alten Ägypter), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 62–63
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