ḫww

== Egyptian == === Etymology === From ḫwj (“to protect, to avoid, to prevent”) +‎ -w. === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xuːʔuː/ Conventional anglicization: khuu === Noun === m what is to be avoided or precluded particularly, evil deeds, baseness, wrongdoing [since the Middle Kingdom] ritual pollution [Greco-Roman Period] ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === “ḫww (lemma ID 115150)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 247.7–247.8 Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 186