ꜥꜣpp

Egyptian
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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

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

References
  • “ꜥꜣpp (lemma ID 35360)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 167.14–167.15
  • Faulkner, Raymond (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, page 297, 345
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