ḫfꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḫfꜣ (“to nourish oneself, to feed”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛfɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: khefat

Noun

 f

1. food, meal [Pyramid Texts, Book of the Dead, and Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫfꜣt  

ḫfꜣt	ḫfꜣyt	ḫfꜣ
[Book of the Dead]	[Book of the Dead]	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “ḫfꜣ.t (lemma ID 116610)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 271.11–271.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 190