gnhḏ
Egyptian · noun
variants : knḥḏ , : knhḏ , : gnḥḏ
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2024-07-31
Meanings
Literal translation
crab
Categories
zodiac sign
Related Lemmata 8 ›

1. Cancer

1.a Cancer zodiac sign

ꜣbd-1 šmw pꜣ knhḏ

‘Pachons: Cancer’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521

Genre: astronomical list Date: 300 BCE - 300 CE

Neugebauer, O., 1943. Demotic Horoscopes, Journal of the American Oriental Society 63: 121-122

2. crab

2.a crab
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). gnhḏ (Lemma #59). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). gnhḏ (Lemma #59). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). gnhḏ (Lemma #59). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) gnhḏ (Lemma #59), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac59,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {gnhḏ ({Lemma} #59)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/},
}