ẖpꜣ
See also: hp
Egyptian edit
Pronunciation edit
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈçuplVw/ → /ˈçuplVw/ → /ˈçuplə/ → /ˈçøplə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɛpɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: khepa
Noun edit
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- umbilical cord
- Synonym: npꜣw
- c. 1650 BCE – 1550 BCE, Tales from Papyrus Westcar (pWestcar/pBerlin 3033) column 7:
- jꜥ.jn.sn sw šꜥd ẖpꜣ.f
- And they washed him after his umbilical cord had been cut.
- navel
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References edit
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 297.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 365.14–365.16