ꜥꜣt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: aat

Etymology 1

Noun

 f

1. precious stone or precious metal in general
2. (by extension) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Medical papyri]
   1. gallstone
   2. bladder stone

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt
[Old Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]
	in hieratic

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣt wḏḥ
• ꜥꜣt bjꜣt
• ꜥꜣt rwḏt
• ꜥꜣt ḥḏt
• ms ꜥꜣt

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜣ, ꜥꜣ.t, ꜥ.w, ꜥꜣj

Noun

 f

1. stone vessel

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣwt	ꜥꜣt
[Pyramid Texts]	[Old Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]
in the plural

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣt nt ẖr

Etymology 2

ꜥꜣj (“to be(come) big, great, important”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. great or important thing [since the Old Kingdom]
2. (in particular) significant difficult or bad thing

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣw	ꜥꜣ
		[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]

Derived terms

• n ꜥꜣt nt
• r ꜥꜣt

Noun

 f

1. distinguished goddess, great one (as a title for goddesses)

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Noun

 f

1. swelling, lump [Medical papyri]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣt

Noun

 f

1. rule, dominion [late 25th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Etymology 3

ꜥꜣ (“donkey”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

Noun

 f

1. (female) donkey, she-ass [Pyramid Texts and New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

jꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt
[Pyramid Texts]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜣ.t, ꜥyꜣ.t

Etymology 4

Noun

 f

1. linen, linen cloth [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣ	ꜥꜣ	ꜥꜣwt	ꜥꜣt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• šzp-ꜥꜣt

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜣjw, ꜥꜣjw.t, ꜥꜣj, ꜥꜣj.t
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲁⲩ (iau)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲁⲁⲩ (eiaau), ⲉⲓⲱ (eiō), ⲓⲱ (iō)

Etymology 5

Noun

 f

1. a kind of beverage [Medical papyri]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

References

• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34880)”, “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34890)”, “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34860)”, “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34850)”, “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34900)”, “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34930)”, “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 21520)”, “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34920)”, and “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34910)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 40.5, 163.8, 163.12–163.14, 165.12–166.4, 166.6, 166.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 37–38
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132.