bddw-kꜣ

Egyptian

FWOTD – 24 July 2013

Etymology

bdd (“a kind of plant”) +‎ kꜣ (“bull”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛdɛduː kɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: bededu-ka

Noun

 m

1. watermelon [Middle Kingdom and Medical papyri]
   • c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus, lines 43.2–43.4 (Eb 208):

     kt pẖrt nt dr šnꜥ m r(ꜣ)-jb t n(j) nbs 1 bddw-kꜣ 1 ryt mjw 1 ḥ(n)qt nḏmt 1 jrp 1 jr m ḫt wꜥt wt ḥr.s

     Another remedy for driving out constipation (lit. obstruction in the stomach): bread of the Christ's thorn jujube (1); watermelon (1); excretion of a cat (1); sweet beer (1); wine (1). Combine to make a paste (lit. make into one thing) and bandage over it.

Inflection

Declension of bddw-kꜣ (masculine)

singular	bddw-kꜣ
dual	bddwj-kꜣ
plural	bddww-kꜣ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bddw-kꜣ  

bddw-kꜣw

References

• “bdd.w-kꜣ (lemma ID 861516)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 488.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 86