ꜥꜣpp

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ʕVʀˈpaːpVw/ → /ʕVʀˈpaːpVw/ → /ʕaˈpaːpə/ → /ʕaˈpoːp/

Proper noun

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  1. Apep/Apophis, the evil being who tries to devour the sun every night, often depicted in the form of a vast water snake [since the Book of the Dead]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣpp  

ꜥpp ꜥꜣpp
[New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

  • Demotic: ꜥpp, ꜥpꜥp
  • Ancient Greek: Ἄπωφις (Ápōphis), Ἄποπις (Ápopis)

References

  • “ꜥꜣpp (lemma ID 35360)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 167.14–167.15
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38
  1. ^ Osing, Jürgen (1976) Die Nominalbildung des Ägyptischen, Mainz/Rhein: von Zabern, →ISBN, pages 297, 345
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