mḫꜣt

m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ ḫꜣj (“to measure”) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛxɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: mekhat

 f

1. balance, scales
2. (figuratively) fair measurer of rightness or worth, especially in reference to fair-dealing officials

• jwsw

• jrj-mḫꜣt
• mḫꜣ
• mḫꜣt-tꜣwj

• Demotic: mḫj, mḫjt, mḫꜥ
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲁⳉⲉ (maxe)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁϣⲓ (maši)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲁϣⲉ (maše)

• “mḫꜣ.t (lemma ID 74300)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 130.8–130.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 115
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 84, 129.