hh

See also: HH, Hh, hH, ḥḥ, and ḫḫ

English

Noun

hh pl (plural only)

1. Abbreviation of hands (one hand being four inches).
   • 2007, Lesley Bayley, The Photographic Guide to Schooling Your Horse, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 127:

     For a 15.2hh–16.2hh horse the average stride length is 3.6m (12ft).

Egyptian

FWOTD – 19 December 2020

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: heh

Noun

 m

1. rush of hot air
   1. blast from a fire
   2. hot or burning breath, particularly of supernatural beings
      • c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — west wall of the antechamber, line 18–19, spell 255.2–255.4:

        jd ꜣḫt n ḥr-nḫn(j) nsr n(j) hh[.s r.ṯn] ḥꜣ(j)w kꜣr ḫfḫft hh.s r.ṯn wṯzw wrt

        The place of sunrise will be censed for Horus of Nekhen. The flame of [his] fiery breath [is against you], you who are around the shrine! The gush of his fiery breath is against you, you who carry the great one!

   3. steam from freshly baked bread
2. (figuratively) heat from the sun
3. (figuratively) fever or hot breath as a symptom of disease

Inflection

Declension of hh (masculine)

singular	hh
dual	hhwj
plural	hhw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hh  

hhj	hꜣhꜣ
	[New Kingdom]
	in papyri

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 501.15–502.8
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 160

Esperanto

Letter

hh

1. A digraph used in the h-sistemo to represent ĥ.

See also

• ch, gh, jh, sh
• cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux