ꜥꜣbt
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Egyptian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑːʔɑbɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: aabet
Etymology 1[edit]
ꜥꜣb (“to make an offering”) + -t.
Noun[edit]
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- offerings, especially a large set of offerings to the gods, hecatomb
- food for the dead in the afterworld
- food, provisions, etc. in general
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣbt
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Noun[edit]
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Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣbt
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Etymology 2[edit]
ꜥꜣb (“to be pleasing, to be selfish”) + -t.
Noun[edit]
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Usage notes[edit]
This word may alternatively not be an independent word of its own, but rather merely a metaphorical use of the word above meaning ‘offerings’. It is only attested in the L2 version of the Instructions of Ptahhotep (pBM EA 10509) in the phrase kꜣw n ꜥꜣbt (“sustenance of (selfishness?)”).
References[edit]
- “ꜥꜣb.t (lemma ID 35330)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- “ꜥꜣb.t (lemma ID 35340)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 167.9–167.12
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38