ꜣby-šmꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣby (“lithe spotted big cat”) +‎ šmꜥ (“Upper Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘panther of Upper Egypt’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbiː ʃɛmɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: aby-shema

Noun

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1. leopard, Panthera pardus, usually as a simile for bloodlust or fury

Inflection

Declension of ꜣby-šmꜥ (masculine)

singular	ꜣby šmꜥ
dual	ꜣbywj šmꜥ
plural	ꜣbyw šmꜥ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣby-šmꜥ  

ꜣbw šmꜥt

[New Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 7.12–7.13