bḥnt

Egyptian

Etymology

bḥnj (“to dismember, to punish, to eliminate”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛhnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: behnet

Noun

 f

1. knife [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of bḥnt (feminine)

singular	bḥnt
dual	bḥntj
plural	bḥnwt

References

• “bḥn.t (lemma ID 56870)”, 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, page 468.19