bddw-kꜣ

== Egyptian == === Etymology === bdd (“a kind of plant”) +‎ kꜣ (“bull”) in a direct genitive construction. === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɛdɛduː kɑ/ Conventional anglicization: bededu-ka === Noun === m watermelon [Middle Kingdom and Medical papyri] c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus, lines 43.2–43.4 (Eb 208): ==== Inflection ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === “bdd.w-kꜣ (lemma ID 861516)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 488.7 Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 86