ḥḥ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hh"

Egyptian

Egyptian numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000  ←  100,000 𓁨
1,000,000 (106)
    Cardinal: ḥḥ
    Ordinal: mḥ-ḥḥ

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/

Numeral
  1. million [since the 1st Dynasty, chiefly Old Egyptian]
  2. (by extension) a very large amount [chiefly Middle and Late Egyptian]

Inflection

masculine feminine
singular ḥḥ
 —

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥḥ  
ḥḥ ḥḥ ḥḥ ḥḥ ḥḥ
[since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period, occasionally earlier]

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Coptic: ϩⲁϩ (hah)

Noun

 m

  1. the floodwaters of the inundation [Greco-Roman Period]

References

  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
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