Sphinx

Etymology
From.

Hypernyms

 * ; - suborder;  - infraorder;  - division;  - section;  - subsection;  - superfamily;  - family;  - subfamily

Hyponyms

 * , for the many others see

Etymology
From, from , perhaps from. The appurtenance of 🇨🇬 or remains unclear.

Proper noun

 * 1)  An ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids.
 * 2)  One of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who committed suicide out of frustration after Oedipus managed to solve her riddles.

Synonyms

 * The Great Sphinx, The Great Sphinx of Giza

Translations

 * Arabic: أَبُو الْهَوْل
 * Armenian: Սֆինքս
 * Belarusian: Сфінкс
 * Bulgarian: Сфинкс
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: Sfinksen
 * Dutch: Sfinx
 * Estonian: Sfinks
 * Finnish: Sfinksi
 * French:
 * Georgian: სფინქსი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: गूढ़ व्यक्ति
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: Sfinge
 * Japanese: スフィンクス
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: Sfinksa
 * Lithuanian: Sfinksas
 * Macedonian: Сфинга
 * Maltese: Sfinġa
 * Marathi: स्फिंक्स
 * Norwegian: Sfinksen
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Esfinge
 * Russian: Сфинкс
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Сфи̏нга
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: Sfinga
 * Spanish: Esfinge
 * Swedish: Sfinxen
 * Tajik: Абулҳавл
 * Thai: สฟิงซ์
 * Ukrainian: Сфінкс
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: Nhân sư


 * Danish: sfinks
 * Dutch: Sfinx
 * Finnish: Sfinksi
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Σφίγξ
 * Italian: Sfinge
 * Japanese: スフィンクス
 * Marathi: स्फिंक्स
 * Norwegian: sfinks
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Esfinge
 * Russian: Сфинкс
 * Spanish: Esfinge
 * Swedish: Sfinx
 * Thai: สฟิงซ์


 * Alemannic German:
 * Latin: ,
 * Luxembourgish:

Etymology
From.

Noun
or


 * 1) sphinx

Usage notes

 * Generally speaking, the word is feminine like its Greek etymon. The masculine is sometimes used in scientific usage when the being or statue in question is male. Since this is the case of the, a hypercorrect belief that the masculine is generally more appropriate may exist in some semi-educated speakers.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Sphinx