mrḥt

Egyptian

Etymology

m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ wrḥ (“to anoint”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix)

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /mVˈɾiħjat/ → /mVˈɾiħjaʔ/ → /məˈɾeħa/ → /məˈɾeħə/

Noun
U7
r		 HtW22
Z2ss

 f

  1. oil
    1. anointing oil, also used medicinally or as an offering
    2. fish oil, used as fuel for burning [New Kingdom]
    3. (rare) tree oil
  2. fat (of any kind of animal)

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mrḥt  
U7
r		 HtW2
U7
r		 Ht
W22
U7
r		 HtW23
Z2ss
W2
W2Z3
W2t
N33A
mrḥt mrḥt mrḥt mrḥt mrḥt mrḥt
abbreviation abbreviation abbreviation
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mrḥt  
mrHtW2
mrHt
W22
U7
r		 HW2
U7
r		 HW22
Z2ss
U7
r		 HN33C
Z2ss
U7
r		 bHW2
U7
r		 N21
t		 W2
mrḥt mrḥt mrḥ mrḥ mrḥ mrḥw mrt
[Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Egyptian: mrḥ m (“asphalt”)
    • Demotic: mrḥ
      • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲏϩⲉ (amrēhe)
      • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲣⲉϩⲓ (mrehi), ⲉⲙⲣⲉϩⲓ (emrehi), ⲙⲃⲣⲉϩⲓ (mbrehi), ⲃⲣⲉϩⲓ (brehi), ⲉⲣⲡⲣⲉϩⲓ (erprehi)
      • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲉϩⲓ (amrehi)
      • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲏϩⲉ (amrēhe), ⲁⲙⲣⲉϩⲉ (amrehe)

References
  • “mrḥ.t (lemma ID 72840)”, 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 110, 111.1–111.10
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 112
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 167, 218.
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48
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