hieroglyph

hieroglyph meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Tagalog

Examples of hieroglyph in a sentence

• Some idea of the nature of Mayan hieroglyphs has already been gained from the sets of day-signs and month-signs.1924, Herbert Joseph Spinden, The Reduction of Mayan Dates, page 15:
• 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.2015 January 30, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, pages 9-10:

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Forms of hieroglyph

Origin of hieroglyph

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.

Words formed from hieroglyph

• hieroglyphic
• hieroglyphical
• hieroglyphist

Questions about hieroglyph

What does hieroglyph mean?

Hieroglyph means an element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system.

What is hieroglyph in Hindi?

Hieroglyph in Hindi is हीयेरोग्लिफ़ (hīyeroglif). See Hieroglyph meaning in Hindi.

How do you use hieroglyph in a sentence?

Some idea of the nature of Mayan hieroglyphs has already been gained from the sets of day-signs and month-signs.

What part of speech is hieroglyph?

Hieroglyph can be a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce hieroglyph?

Hieroglyph is pronounced /ˈhaɪ.ɹəˌɡlɪf/ (UK).

What is the plural of hieroglyph?

The plural of hieroglyph is hieroglyphs.