ꜣbḏw

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbɛd͡ʒuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: abedju

Uncertain. A development from ꜣbw (“elephant”) +‎ ḏw (“mountain”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘elephant of the mountain’ in reference to the local topography, has been suggested.

 m./f. topo.

1. the city of Abydos
2. (metonymically) the afterlife
   • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:

     ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw(j) m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw

     May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great of Abydos.

• nb ꜣbḏw

• → Ancient Greek: Ἄβῡδος (Ábūdos)
  • Greek: Άβυδος (Ávydos)
  • → Latin: Abȳdus, Abidos, Aboedos
• Old Coptic: ⲁⲃⲱⲧ (abōt)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲃⲱⲧ (ebōt)

 m

1. (hapax legomenon) Abydenes, the people of Abydos collectively [26th Dynasty]

 m

1. a kind of fish, often used medicinally, and mythologically said to pilot the solar barque or, in later times, to be a form of the sun god [since the medical papyri]

The existing pictures of this fish are too conventionalized to establish its species with any certainty. It has been suggested to be quite similar to the Nile perch, but with a crescent caudal fin.

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 8.23–9.2
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 12
• Dawson, Warren R. (1933) “Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts—II” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 19, p. 137
• Wegner, Josef (2007) “From Elephant-Mountain to Anubis-Mountain? A Theory on the Origins and Development of the Name Abdju” in The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of David O’Connor, volume 2, pages 459–476