wr-ḥkꜣw

Egyptian

Etymology

wr (“great”) +‎ ḥkꜣw (plural of ḥkꜣ (“magic”)) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘(the one) great of magic powers’, i.e. ‘one with great magic’.

Pronunciation

Noun
wr
r		 HkA
Z2

 m

  1. epithet for various gods or the king
  2. a kind of collar [Coffin Texts]

Inflection
Declension of wr-ḥkꜣw (masculine)
singular wr-ḥkꜣw
dual wrwj-ḥkꜣw
plural wrw-ḥkꜣw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wr-ḥkꜣw  
wr
r		 HkA
Z2		 A40
Z9
r		 pH
R12
wr-ḥkꜣw wr-ḥkꜣw
[Greco-Roman Period]
as a divine epithet

Noun
wr
r		 HkA
Z2		 U19

 m

  1. curving serpent-headed adze or blade used as a ritual instrument in the opening of the mouth ceremony, a funerary ritual to allow the deceased to eat and drink once more

Inflection
Declension of wr-ḥkꜣw (masculine)
singular wr-ḥkꜣw
dual wrwj-ḥkꜣw
plural wrw-ḥkꜣw

References
  • “wr-ḥkꜣw (lemma ID 47640)”, 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
  • “wr-ḥkꜣw (lemma ID 850410)”, 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, pages 328.3–328.5
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64
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