Bird+Hieroglyphics

Bird Hieroglyphics

Owl (//sma//) = "come together," "obey," "by," "from," "oversee," "M"

Owl and hare = "eat," "devour"

Owl and walking legs = "bring"

Owl and ear = "hear"

Vulture (//neret//) = "mother," "prosperous," "see," "A"

Vulture with a flail = "grandmother," "ruler"

Falcon (//bik//) = "star," "hour," "prayer," "land," "world"

Falcon with a flail = "god," "pharaoh," "greatness"

Falcon perched on a notched branch = "a year"

Two crocodiles and a falcon = "sovereign"

Falcon perched on feather and standard = "West," "Sehet Aaru," "afterlife," "right hand"

Bird with human head (//Ba//) = "//Ba//," "spirit," "soul," "personality"

Goose (//gengen//) = "fat," "plumb," "earth"

Hovering duck = "hover," "tremble," "shake,"

Flying duck = "fly," "alight"

Two ducks walking together = "washerman," "cleanliness"

Duck and walking legs = "come in," "enter"

Duck and man = "son"

Duck and woman = "daughter"

Heron (//benu//, //sda-wr,// //aha'w//, or //sntj//) = "vigilance," "to rise," "Bennu"

Sacred ibis ( //dhw// ) = "glory," "virtue"

Glossy Ibis (//hebiu//) = "shining," "insight"

Hermit ibis (//akhet//) = "//Akh,//" "spirit," "shining," "luminous"

Lapwing (//rekhyt//) = "a group of people," "people of Lower Egypt"

Lapwing with human arms = "a group of people giving praise"

Swallow (//menet// or //wer//) = "great," "souls," "herald"

Sparrow (//qsn'w//) = "evil," "bad," "misfortune," "empty," "misery," "injury," "to be ill"

Quail chick (//paa'w't//) = "O," "U," "W"

Ostrich feather (//shut//) = "truth," "order," "Ma'at"

A Dictionary of Egyptian Hieroglyphics