mdw-ḥr

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw (“staff”) +‎ ḥr (“Horus”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff of Horus’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduː hɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: medu-hor

Noun

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a kind of staff or scepter

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-ḥr

mdw-ḥr

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 178.6

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