bhn

See also: BHN and bḥn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛhɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: behen

Noun

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1. a kind of article of clothing. The meaning of this term is uncertain.
2. used in ḥbs bhn (“to protect”)

Inflection

Declension of bhn (masculine)

singular	bhn
dual	bhnwj
plural	bhnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bhn  

bhn

References

• “bhn (lemma ID 859161)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 467.10
• Fox, Michael V. (1985) The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs, page 58, note f