ẖꜣt

See also: ḥꜣt and ḫꜣt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: khat

Noun

 f

1. corpse
   • c. 1859 BCE – 1813 BCE, The Loyalist Teaching (Stele of Sehetepibre/Cairo CG 20538 Verso) line 19:

     nn jz n sbj ḥr ḥm.f jw ẖꜣt.f m qmꜣ n mw

     There is no tomb for a rebel against His Majesty; his corpse is thrown to the water.

Inflection

Declension of ẖꜣt (feminine)

singular	ẖꜣt
dual	ẖꜣtj
plural	ẖꜣwt

Derived terms

• jꜥb ẖꜣt

Noun

 f

1. body of marsh water or lagoon in the Nile delta

Inflection

Declension of ẖꜣt (feminine)

singular	ẖꜣt
dual	ẖꜣtj
plural	ẖꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖꜣt  

ẖꜣt

Romanization

ẖꜣt

1. Alternative transliteration of ḫꜣyt.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 359.9–359.20, 360.7–360.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 200
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 121.