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ḫȝb

ḫ3b

Egyptian

Noun

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masculine

  1. hippopotamus

Inflection

Declension
sing. ḫ3b
dual ḫ3bwj
plural ḫ3bw

References

Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ḫab- (compare Akkadian [script needed] ‎(ub/pātum, “fat cow”)).

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