bddw-kꜣ

Egyptian

FWOTD – 24 July 2013

Etymology

bdd (“a kind of plant”) +‎ kꜣ (“bull”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. watermelon [Middle Kingdom and Medical papyri]
    • c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus, lines 43.2–43.4 (Eb 208):












       
       

       
       
       

       
       
       

       
      kt pẖrt nt dr šnꜥ m r(ꜣ)-jb t n(j) nbs 1 bddw-kꜣ 1 ryt mjw 1 ḥ(n)qt nḏmt 1 jrp 1 jr m ḫt wꜥt wt ḥr.s
      Another remedy for driving out constipation (lit. obstruction in the stomach): bread of the Christ's thorn jujube (1); watermelon (1); excretion of a cat (1); sweet beer (1); wine (1). Combine to make a paste (lit. make into one thing) and bandage over it.[1][2]

Inflection

Declension of bddw-kꜣ (masculine)
singular bddw-kꜣ
dual bddwj-kꜣ
plural bddww-kꜣ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bddw-kꜣ  

bddw-kꜣw

References

  • “bdd.w-kꜣ (lemma ID 861516)”, 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
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 488.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 86
  1. ^ Lise Manniche, An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, University of Texas Press, 1989
  2. ^ Wreszinski, Walter (1913) Der Papyrus Ebers: Umschrift, Übersetzung und Kommentar (volume III of Die Medizin der alten Ägypter), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 62–63
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