"Father of Terrors" is the translation that is recognized by archaeologists and Egypologists
The Sphinx is a name that was given to the monument by the Greeks.
As Zoser has told you the name ,Abu ah Hol derives from the ancient Egyptian words that refers to the Hawk god Horus son of Osiris and Isis.
Horus was identified strongly with the Pharaohs and on attaining rule they took what is referred to a a Horus name as well as their own.
The second part of the word refers to fear and tells you tells you to beware.
So speaking in to days terminology the name tells us:
This is the place of the God Horus beware or have fear.
2007-08-29 01:28:44
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answered by sistablu...Maat 7
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It is called Abou Alhol , this is from the Pharaohnic word:
BOU : Place -------------Hor :egyptian god
Bou Hor which means the Place of Horos (hor in Pharaonic language is an ancient Egyptian god/ Horos in Greek) ,,, then by time it was bou hol,,,and then with the influence of the Arabic language it became ''Abo alhol'' ,,, so there is no relation between the sphinx and abou : which means father, or houl (fear) (even the pronunciation should be hol )
The name abou al hol is from a pharaohnic origion,,
2007-08-29 07:47:57
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answered by Zoser 6
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"To this day, the villagers who live near Giza have an oral tradition that the Sphinx, which they call Abul Al-Hol, or "the Father of Terrors," is some 5,000 years older than the nearby Great Pyramid of Khufu."
From the following website:
http://www.antiquityofman.com/Schoch_Omni.html
2007-08-29 07:12:36
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answered by kcpaull 5
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in arabic its called
abu el houl
اب٠اÙÙÙÙ
in Egyptian mythology, a creature with a lion’s body and the head of a man, ram, or bird
Sphinx is an image of a recumbent lion with the head of a ram, of a falcon or of a person, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, and is a cultural import in Greek mythology
The sphinxes of Egypt are mythical creatures, seen as guardians in the Egyptian statuary. Sphinxes are depicted in one of these three forms:
Androsphinx - body of lion with head of person;
Criosphinx - body of lion with head of ram;
Hierocosphinx - body of lion with head of falcon or hawk.
The largest and most famous is the Great Sphinx of Giza, sited on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River, facing due east ( 29°58′31″N, 31°08′15″E). The face of the Great Sphinx is believed to be the head of the pharaoh Khafra (often known by the Greek version of his name, Chephren) or possibly that of his son, the Pharaoh Djedefra, which would date its construction from the fourth dynasty (2723 BC–2563 BC).
The inscription on a stele in the Great Sphinx dates it from one thousand years after the carving of the Sphinx,[1] gives three names of the sun: Kheperi - Re - Atum. The Arabic name of the Great Sphinx, Abu al-Hôl, translates as "Father of Terror". The Greek name "Sphinx" was applied to it in the Antiquity. But unlike the Greek mythological creature, it has the head of a man, not of a woman.
Other famous Egyptian sphinxes include one bearing the head of the pharaoh Hatshepsut, with her likeness carved in granite which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the alabaster sphinx of Memphis, currently located within the open-air museum at that site; and the ram-headed sphinxes (in Greek, criosphinxes) representing the god Amon, in Thebes, of which there were originally some nine hundred. What name or names the builders gave to the statues is unknown.
u can also find in Greek mythology, a winged creature with a lion’s body and a woman’s head. It strangled all who could not answer its riddle, but killed itself when Oedipus answered correctly.
There was a single Sphinx in Greek mythology, a unique demon of destruction and bad luck, according to Hesiod a daughter of Echidna and of Orthrus or, according to others, of Typhon and Echidna — all of these chthonic figures.
She was represented in vase-painting and bas-reliefs most often seated upright rather than recumbent, as a winged lion with a woman's head; or she was a woman with the paws, claws and breasts of a lion, a serpent's tail and eagle wings. Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (the Greeks remembered the Sphinx foreign origin) to Thebes where, in Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus, she asks all passersby history's most famous riddle: "Which creature in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?" She strangled anyone unable to answer.
2007-08-29 07:59:27
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answered by Eccentric 7
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It is called "Abou El hol" أب٠اÙÙÙÙ
Its an Arabic term that can be loosely translated as "Awe inspiring".
2007-08-29 07:12:02
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answered by msafwat 4
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Abo el Howl
2007-08-29 12:57:58
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answered by Anonymous
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abu el houl
اب٠اÙÙÙÙ
2007-08-29 07:31:36
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answered by *~Ãya~* 4
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It's called the "Sphinx." It's an Egyptian word!
2007-08-29 07:08:15
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answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7
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it is called " Abou El Houl"
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2007-08-29 07:14:05
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answered by Sultan Shalfat the Adventurer 5
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اب٠اÙÙÙÙ. اÙت Ùصد٠عÙÙ Ùد٠Ø
2007-08-29 07:11:20
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answered by Desert Rose 2
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