zft

See also: zfṯ

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Related to zf (“to slaughter, cut up”), zfṯ (“to slaughter”). Also compare Arabic سيف (sayf), Amharic ሰይፍ (säyf).

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈzuːfat/ → /ˈsuːfaʔ/ → /ˈsuːfa/ → /ˈseːfə/

Noun
z
f
t		 T30

 f m

  1. (feminine) (metal) sword [since the 18th Dynasty]
  2. (masculine) knife [since the 18th Dynasty]
Inflection
Declension of zft (feminine)
singular zft
dual zftj
plural zfwt
Declension of zft (masculine)
singular zft
dual zftwj
plural zftw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zft  
sf
t		 T30
sf
t		 T30
D40		 N34
z
f
t		 T30
z
t F51		 T30
sft sft zft zt
[19th-20th Dynasty] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
Descendants
  • Demotic: T30⁠y⁠f-2⁠s (sfy)
  • → Ancient Greek: ξίφος (xíphos)

Etymology 2

zf (“to be(come) mild, merciful”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

Noun
sf
t		 D19A2

 f

  1. (hapax) clemency, mercy, gentleness

References
  • “zf.t (lemma ID 133420)”, 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
  • “sf.t (lemma ID 133500)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 442.7–442.10
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 224
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
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