The word for a dung beetle or scarab is written in hieroglyphs as xprr. The vowel sounds were not written, so we can never know how this word was said; the x sound is a very throaty k or kh.
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Scarabs are a species of dung beetle that lays its eggs in a little ball of animal dung which it rolls into a sheltered spot. The eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the dung, eventually emerging as adult beetles. Those fantasy scarab beetles in The Mummy films are pure Hollywood fiction.