hieroglyph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested around 1598, a back-formation from hieroglyphic (1580s), from Middle French hiéroglyphique, from Late Latin hieroglyphicus, from Ancient Greek ἱερογλυφικός (hierogluphikós) (Plutarch τά ἱερογλυφικά [γράμματα] "hieroglyphic [writing]), ἱερόγλυφος (hierógluphos, “carver of hieroglyphs”) (Ptolemy), a compound of ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”) and γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carved work”), a calque of Egyptian mdw-nṯr (“the god’s word”), nTr-md. By surface analysis, hiero- + glyph.
Inflected forms:
form: hieroglyphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hieroglyphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hieroglyphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hieroglyphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hieroglyphed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system.
pos: noun
examples: Hieroglyphs were discovered on the wall inside the temple.
Mayan Hieroglyphs as Linguistic Evidence. In Third Palenque Round Table, 1978, vol. V, part 2, edited by Merle Greene Robertson, pp. 204-216.
Some idea of the nature of Mayan hieroglyphs has already been gained from the sets of day-signs and month-signs. In the opinion of the writer, Mayan hieroglyphs are among the best examples of calligraphy; each glyph block is a composition exhibiting remarkable qualities of design.
gloss: An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system.
pos: noun
gloss: Any obscure or baffling symbol.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: With your handwriting, it's no surprise the Prof can't read your hieroglyphs!
"There are SCPs with antimemetic properties," Marion goes on. "There are ideas which cannot be spread. There are entities and phenomena which harvest and consume information, particularly information about themselves. You take a Polaroid photo of one, it'll never develop. You write a description down with a pen on paper and hand it to someone— but what you've written turns out to be hieroglyphs, and nobody can understand them, not even you. You can look directly at one and it won't even be invisible, but you'll still perceive nothing there."
gloss: To represent by hieroglyphs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: hieroglyphic
hieroglyphical
hieroglyphist
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: hiëroglief
lang: Albanian
word: hieroglif
lang: Arabic
word: هِيرُوغْلِيفِيَّة
roman: hiroḡlifiyya
lang: Armenian
word: հիերոգլիֆ
roman: hieroglif
lang: Asturian
word: xeroglíficu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: heroqlif
lang: Belarusian
word: іеро́гліф
roman: ijeróhlif
lang: Belarusian
word: геро́гліф
roman: hjeróhlif
lang: Bengali
word: হায়ারোগ্লিফ
roman: haẏarōgliph
lang: Bulgarian
word: йерогли́ф
roman: jeroglíf
lang: Burmese
word: အရုပ်စာ
roman: a.rupca
lang: Catalan
word: jeroglífic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 象形文字
roman: xiàngxíng wénzì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 圖畫文字 /图画文字
roman: túhuà wénzì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 聖書體 /圣书体
roman: shèngshūtǐ
lang: Czech
word: hieroglyf
lang: Danish
word: hieroglyf
lang: Dutch
word: hiëroglief
lang: Esperanto
word: hieroglifo
lang: Estonian
word: hieroglüüf
lang: Finnish
word: hieroglyfi
lang: French
word: hiéroglyphe
lang: West-Frisian
word: hiëroglyf
lang: Galician
word: xeróglifo
lang: Galician
word: xeroglífico
lang: Georgian
word: იეროგლიფი
roman: ieroglipi
lang: German
word: Hieroglyphe
lang: Greek
word: ιερογλυφικός
roman: ieroglyfikós
lang: Hawaiian
word: lalinoka
lang: Hebrew
word: הִירוֹגְלִיף
lang: Hindi
word: हीयेरोग्लिफ़
roman: hīyeroglif
lang: Hungarian
word: hieroglifa
lang: Indonesian
word: hieroglif
lang: Irish
word: iairiglif
lang: Italian
word: geroglifico
lang: Japanese
word: 象形文字
roman: shōkei moji
lang: Japanese
word: ヒエログリフ
roman: hierogurifu
lang: Japanese
word: 聖刻
roman: seikoku
lang: Kazakh
word: иероглиф
roman: ieroglif
lang: Khmer
word: វត្ថុលេខនា
roman: vŏətthoʼ leikhaʼnaa
lang: Korean
word: 상형문자
roman: sanghyeongmunja
lang: Korean
word: 히에로글리프
roman: hierogeullipeu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: иероглиф
roman: iyeroglif
lang: Latvian
word: hieroglifs
lang: Lithuanian
word: hieroglifas
lang: Macedonian
word: хиероглиф
roman: hieroglif
lang: Malay
word: hieroglif
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hieroglyf
lang: Occitan
word: ieroglif
lang: Persian
word: هیروگلیف
roman: hiroglif
lang: Polish
word: hieroglif
lang: Portuguese
word: hieróglifo
lang: Romanian
word: hieroglifă
lang: Russian
word: иеро́глиф
roman: ijeróglif
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: хијероглиф
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hijeroglif
lang: Slovak
word: hieroglyf
lang: Slovene
word: hieroglif
lang: Spanish
word: jeroglífico
lang: Swedish
word: hieroglyf
lang: Tagalog
word: heroglipiko
lang: Tajik
word: иероглиф
roman: iyeroglif
lang: Thai
word: ไฮโรกลิฟ
roman: hai-roo-glìf
lang: Turkish
word: hiyeroglif
lang: Turkmen
word: iýeroglif
lang: Ukrainian
word: ієро́гліф
roman: ijeróhlif
lang: Uzbek
word: iyeroglif
lang: Vietnamese
word: chữ tượng hình