ḫꜣꜥ

Egyptian verb

Last edited: 2023-11-01
Primary meaning to abandon, depart
Literal translation to leave, abandon, depart
Variants
ḫꜣꜥ
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to abandon, depart verb

ḥn=f n=w ḏd gšp r tꜣ p.t ỉ.nw r pꜣ ỉtm m-ỉr dỉ.t ḥp md.t ỉw=s ḫpr [... | ...] nꜣ rmṯ.w ꜥš=w nꜣy=w sẖꜣ.w gšp=w r tꜣ p.t nw=w r pꜣ ỉtm ỉ.ỉr=w gm pꜣ syw n wsỉr r ḫꜣꜥ=f tꜣy=f mỉ.t ...

‘He ordered them: "Observe the sky and look at the disc. Do not allow that matters are hidden ... [... | ...] the people. They read their scriptures, they observed the sky, and they looked at the disc. They found that the Star of Osiris, in that it had left its path ..."’

— P.Carlsberg XI 5 x+22-x+23

Genre: literary text
Provenance: Tebtunis
Date: 1st - 2nd cent. CE

Quack, J. F., 2019, Isis, Thot und Arian aud der Suche nach Osiris, in J. F. Quack and K. Ryholt, eds., Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond, Copenhagen 2019, 77-138. 80-81


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḫꜣꜥ (Lemma #659). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/659/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḫꜣꜥ (Lemma #659). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/659/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḫꜣꜥ (Lemma #659). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/659/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ḫꜣꜥ (Lemma #659), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/659/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac659,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ḫꜣꜥ ({Lemma} #659)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/659/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/659/},
}