bḥn

See also: bhn and BHN

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From bḥnj (“to dismember, to punish, to eliminate”).

Noun

 m

  1. dismemberment (act) [Book of the Dead]

Etymology 2

From bḥnw (“to bark”) (unattested underlying form probably *bḥn), thus literally ‘barker’.

Noun

 m

  1. dog [Book of the Dead]
Inflection
Declension of bḥn (masculine)
singular bḥn
dual bḥnwj
plural bḥnw

References

  • “bḥn (lemma ID 56840)” and “bḥn (lemma ID 56850)”, 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 468.18, 468.20
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