Egyptian
Etymology
From jꜥḥ (“moon”) + wr (“great”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- festival of the full moon
- epithet for the god Khonsu as the full moon
References
- “Jꜥḥ-wr (lemma ID 21840)” and “jꜥḥ-wr (lemma ID 850332)”, 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 42.9
- Leitz, Christian; Budde, Dagmar; Dils, Peter; Goldbrunner, Lothar; Mendel, Daniela (2002), Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 1: ꜣ–y, Leuven: Peeters, page 149