gnhḏ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-07-31
Primary meaning Cancer
Literal translation crab
Variants
knḥḏ
knhḏ
gnḥḏ
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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


crab common noun

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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac59,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {gnhḏ ({Lemma} #59)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/59/},
}