ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) ‎ pꜣ (“the”) ‎ ẖrd (“child”), thus ‘Horus the Child’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr pɑ çɛrɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: hor-pa-khered

Proper noun

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1. the god Horus the Child or Harpocrates [since the 21st Dynasty]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd  

ḥr-p-ẖrd	ḥr-p-ẖrd	ḥr-p-ẖrd	ḥr-ẖrd

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ἁρποκράτης (Harpokrátēs)
  • → English: Harpocrates

References

• “Ḥr.w-pꜣ-ẖrd (lemma ID 853040)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 281–282
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.6