ꜥꜣbt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

ꜥꜣb (to make an offering) + -t.

Noun

aA
a
AbtM19Y1
Z2

 f

  1. offerings, especially a large set of offerings to the gods, hecatomb
  2. food for the dead in the afterworld
  3. food, provisions, etc. in general
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Demotic: ꜥbj.t, ꜥbj, ꜥb.t, ꜥb, ꜥꜥb.t, ꜣb

Noun

a
A
bM19t
W62

 f

  1. a kind of jug used for washing [Pyramid Texts]
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

ꜥꜣb (to be pleasing, to be selfish) + -t.

Noun

aA
a
AbtM43Y1
Z2

 f

  1. (hapax) self-pleasingness, selfishness
Usage notes

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

  • ꜥꜣb.t (lemma ID 35330)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, 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, 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
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