ḫrpw

Egyptian

FWOTD – 11 November 2018

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛrpuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: kherpu

Noun

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1. wooden mallet for hammering in a mooring post [Middle Kingdom literature and Book of the Dead]
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 3–5:

     šzp ḫrpw ḥw mjnt ḥꜣtt rḏj.t(j) ḥr tꜣ

     The mallet has been taken, the mooring post has been struck, and the prow rope is set on land.

Inflection

Declension of ḫrpw (masculine)

singular	ḫrpw
dual	ḫrpwwj
plural	ḫrpww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫrpw  

ḫrpw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 326.7