The meaning of the word Sphinx
The word sphinx comes from the Greek word shingo, meaning to strangle or shpingein, meaning to bind tightly, and this is for the Greek Sphinx. The name was taken on the rest of the sphinxes scattered in the Arab world and Egypt due to the physical similarity between him and the Greek Sphinx. In any case, the construction of the Great Sphinx in Giza in Egypt preceded the Greek by far. The meaning of the Sphinx in our Arabic language comes from the great or the great and awful thing. Since our legend today is divided between the Greeks and the Pharaohs, we will start with the first of them. As for a reason for calling it in Arabic, the Sphinx: and The Sphinx was in the past called by the Pharaohs (Bohol), and the pharaohs called the hole in which the Sphinx was (Bar Hawl), meaning a house around, and when the French came to Egypt, they said that his name was (Bohol) because they do not pronounce the letter H and finally a letter to (Sphinx). And now, most of the western world symbolizes the Sphinx by the Egyptian Sphinx, or as they call it, the Great Sphinx because it is the oldest, largest and most famous of the Greeks, and the Sphinx was rediscovered from the western world when Napoleon passed through Egypt in 1798. There are very many of the sphinxes. Around the world, most of them in Egypt and Giza, the Egyptian Sphinx represents the head of a smiling king wearing his decorated headdress and has the body of a lion. Some consider him the son of the Egyptian sun goddess (Ra). Thus he represents strength and wisdom and is a symbol of Egypt’s strong existence for centuries, except That there is another type of the Egyptian Sphinx, and it is in the form of a ram, and it is a follower of another god (Amon). The Phoenicians and the Greeks weave the erection of statues resembling the Sphinx. However, it is winged and has heads like a woman’s head, and it was said that it is a griffin. This creature was strangling its victims, hence the name, that this creature is the result of the mating of two beasts of the Greeks, Typhon (a creature with 100 poisonous heads and killed by Zeus himself) and Echidna ( A being with the head of a beautiful mermaid and the body of a giant snake. And the Lachidna has other offspring of terrifying creatures, including Seven Nemea, Cyprius, Ladon, Chimera, and Hydra.