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sꜥḥ
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Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɑːh/
- Conventional anglicization: sah
Verb
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3-lit.
- (transitive) to ennoble, to distinguish
- (transitive) to wrap (the image of a god) in bandages
- (transitive) to mummify
- (intransitive, usually as part of a causative after rḏj) to be(come) distinguished or noble
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜥḥ
Noun
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m
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜥḥ
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m
- dignitary, privileged or distinguished person
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 7–8:
- sꜥḥ ꜣḫ ḫnt sꜥḥw wꜣḥ jꜣwt smn ḥqꜣt sḫm nfr n(j) psḏt jmꜣ ḥr mrr mꜣ n.f rdj snḏ.f m tꜣw nb(w) n mr(w)t dm.sn rn.f r ḥꜣt […]
- Effective dignitary, foremost of dignitaries, enduring of office, established of reign, the fair power of the Ennead, gracious of face, the sight of whom is beloved, the awe of whom is set in all lands in order that they pronounce his name first, […]
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜥḥ
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m
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References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 49.3–50.2, 50.8–52.15
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 214–215
- James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 362.
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