bnw
See also: bnw.
Egyptian
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edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɛnuː/
- Conventional anglicization: benu
Noun
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- the Bennu or phoenix, a divine being and a bird into which the dead could transform.
- c. 1478 BCE – 1397 BCE, Book of the Dead of Nu (pLondon British Museum EA10477) chapter 64, line 23:
- j(w)j.n.j m ḫm r jwnw r rḏj.t rḫ bnw ḫrt dwꜣt
- I have come from Letopolis to Heliopolis to let the phoenix know of the conditions of the Afterworld.
Inflection
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editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of bnw
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Derived terms
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- Alternative form of bnr (“date (fruit)”)
References
edit- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN