bht

See also: BHT

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛhɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: behet

Etymology 1

bhꜣ (“fan”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. fan, flabellum made of ostrich feathers or flowers [New Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of bht (feminine)

singular	bht
dual	bhtj
plural	bhwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bht  

bhꜣ	bht	bhꜣyw
[19th to 20th Dynasty]	[since the New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]
in hieratic

Derived terms

• ḥbs bht

Etymology 2

From bhd (“to inhale, to cense”); the expected form *bhd of this noun is unattested.

Noun

 m

1. fragrance, pleasant scent [Greco-Roman Period]
2. fragrant substance or perfume with which the eye is made full [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of bht (masculine)

singular	bht
dual	bhtwj
plural	bhtw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bht  

bht	bht

References

• “bh.t (lemma ID 56680)” and “bhd (lemma ID 56750)”, 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 467.3–467.7, 467.15–467.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83