أبو الهول
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From أَب (ʔab) and هَوْل (hawl): “the dreadful one,” literally “father of dread.” Phono-semantic matching of Coptic only attested by transcription in al-Maqrīzī as بلهيب and بلهويه which in turn is likely derived from Demotic pꜣ-ḥwr (“Horon, a Canaanite god with whom the Sphinx was identified”).
Noun edit
أَبُو الْهَوْل • (ʔabū l-hawl) m
Declension edit
Declension of noun أَبُو الْهَوْل (ʔabū l-hawl)
| Singular | singular long construct | ||
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| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | أَبُو الْهَوْل ʔabū l-hawl |
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| Nominative | — | أَبُو الْهَوْلِ ʔabū l-hawli |
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| Accusative | — | أَبَا الْهَوْلِ ʔabā l-hawli |
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| Genitive | — | أَبِي الْهَوْلِ ʔabī l-hawli |
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Related terms edit
- هَرَم (haram, “pyramid”)
References edit
- Peust, Carsten (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten (Göttinger Miszellen. Beihefte; 8)[1] (in German), Göttingen, page 46