ꜣhw

See also: ꜣḫw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑhuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ahu

Noun

 m

1. (uncountable) pain [Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]
2. (uncountable) sadness, sorrow, misery, trouble [Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]
3. (uncountable) injury, illness [Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]
4. (uncountable) damage to property [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣhw  

ꜣh	ꜣh	jhw	jh	jh	jh
					[since the 18th Dynasty]

Noun

 m

1. sufferer, aggrieved or afflicted person

Inflection

Declension of ꜣhw (masculine)

singular	ꜣhw
dual	ꜣhwwj
plural	ꜣhww

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 12.4–12.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 3–4
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 122, 455.