ḥꜣb-sd

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥꜣb (festival) +‎ sd (tail) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘festival of the tail’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun


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  1. the Sed festival, a jubilee festival first celebrated after a king had ruled for thirty years and thereafter every three or four years

Inflection

Declension of ḥꜣb-sd (masculine)
singular ḥꜣb-sd
dual ḥꜣbwj-sd
plural ḥꜣbw-sd

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