ḥꜣb-sd

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥꜣb (“festival”) +‎ sd (“tail”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘festival of the tail’.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ħaˌʀabˈsitʼ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɑb sɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: hab-sed

Proper noun

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1. the Sed festival, a jubilee festival first celebrated after a king had ruled for thirty years and thereafter every three or four years

Inflection

Declension of ḥꜣb-sd (masculine)

singular	ḥꜣb-sd
dual	ḥꜣbwj-sd
plural	ḥꜣbw-sd

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣb-sd  

ḥꜣb-sd

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 59.1–60.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 167