jmꜣt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imat

Etymology 1

From jmꜣ (“to be(come) kindly, friendly, or gracious”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. kindness, friendliness, graciousness, charm
2. kind behavior, good deeds
3. belovedness, well-likedness, favor (+ genitive: possessed by (someone))

Inflection

Declension of jmꜣt (feminine)

singular	jmꜣt
dual	jmꜣtj
plural	jmꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣt  

jmꜣt	jꜣmt	jmꜣt	jmꜣt	jꜣmt	jmꜣt	mꜣt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣt  

jmꜣt	jmꜣ	jmꜣt	jmt	jmꜣt
[18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• wrt-jmꜣt
• nb-jmꜣt
• nbt-jmꜣt

 

Etymology 2

Probably from jꜣm (“to bind for sacrifice”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. female ibex [Old and Middle Kingdoms]
2. female wild animal in general

Inflection

Declension of jmꜣt (feminine)

singular	jmꜣt
dual	jmꜣtj
plural	jmꜣwt

References

• “jꜣm.t (lemma ID 24900)” and “jꜣm.t (lemma ID 24880)”, 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 79.1–79.2, 80.1–80.6, 80.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 19–20