ḥrrt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (noun meaning ‘flower’): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ħVˈɾuːɾat/ → /ħVˈɾuːɾaʔ/ → /ħəˈɾuːɾa/ → /ħəˈɾeːɾə/

• (noun meaning ‘flower’): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħVˈɾuːɾat/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (noun meaning ‘flower’): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħVˈɾuːɾaʔ/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (noun meaning ‘flower’): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħəˈɾuːɾa/
• (noun meaning ‘flower’): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħəˈɾeːɾə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: hereret

Noun

 f

1. flower, blossom [since the 18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of ḥrrt (feminine)

singular	ḥrrt
dual	ḥrrtj
plural	ḥrrwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrrt  

ḥrt	ḥrrt	ḥrrt	ḥrwrw	ḥrrt
[18th Dynasty]	[18th-19th Dynasty]	[18th-20th Dynasty]	[18th–22th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty and Greco-Roman Period]
from the Ebers Papyrus

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrrt  

ḥꜣrrt	ḥrr	ḥrrt	ḥrrt
[Amarna Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• jrj ḥrrt

Descendants

• Demotic: (ḥrry)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲣⲏⲣⲓ (hrēri)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri)
    • →? Proto-Albanian: *lulā
      • Albanian: lule
        • >? Greek: λουλούδι (louloúdi)
    • → Ancient Greek: λείριον (leírion)
      • Greek: λειρί (leirí, “cock's comb”)
      • → Latin: līlium (see there for further descendants)
        • → Translingual: Lilium
      • → Serbo-Croatian: lijȇr
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲣⲏⲣⲉ (hrēre)

Proper noun

 f

1. a hostile snake in the Duat (underworld) [Theban royal funerary literature and Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrrt  

ḥrr	ḥrr
[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• ḥrrwt nbt (“all crawling things”)

Proper noun

 f

1. an obscure goddess, Hereret [Middle Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 149.8–149.18
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 277.