ꜥꜣbt
Appearance
Egyptian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑːʔɑbɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: aabet
Etymology 1
[edit]From ꜥꜣb (“to make an offering”) + -t.
Noun
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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
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[edit]Noun
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Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣbt
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Etymology 2
[edit]From ꜥꜣb (“to be pleasing, to be selfish”) + -t.
Noun
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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)” and “ꜥꜣb.t (lemma ID 35340)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], 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