ḥḏw

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥḏ (“to be white”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛd͡ʒuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: hedju

Noun

 m

1. (uncountable) any Allium species; garlic or onions (as a cultivated plant, as a side dish to bread and meat, as an apotropaic against snakes and evil spirits, or used medicinally)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥḏw  

ḥḏw	ḥḏw	ḥḏw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 212.5–212.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 182