wꜥḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑːh/
  • Conventional anglicization: wah

Noun

 m

1. chufa

Usage notes

Formerly incorrectly identified as the carob.

Inflection

Declension of wꜥḥ (masculine)

singular	wꜥḥ
dual	wꜥḥwj
plural	wꜥḥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wꜥḥ  

wꜥḥ	ꜥḥ	wꜥḥ	ꜥḥ	ꜥḥ
[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 289.1–289.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 58
• Pommerening, Tanja (2016) “Heilkundliche Texte aus dem Alten Ägypten” in Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome: Methodological Aspects with Examples, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, page 245