mrt

See also: MRT, and mrť

Egyptian

Etymology 1

From mr (“to be sick, to be painful”) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: meret

Noun

 f

1. ailment, illness; sickness or pain [since the Medical papyri]

   ― mrt qsnt ― a painful illness

2. something bad inflicted on someone, evil, misfortune [Pyramid Texts and New Kingdom]

   ― jrj mrt r ― to do evil against (someone)

Inflection

Declension of mrt (feminine)

singular	mrt
dual	mrtj
plural	mrwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mrt  

mrt	mrt
	[New Kingdom]
	in hieratic

Etymology 2

Feminine singular of the perfective passive participle of mrj, thus literally ‘the beloved’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: meret

Proper noun

 f

1. a female given name

References

• “mr.t (lemma ID 72000)” and “Mr.t (lemma ID 702191)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 96.6–96.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 111
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 84, 136.
• Lee, Sunwoo (2022) Exploring Pain in Ancient Egypt (PhD thesis), Chicago: University of Chicago, page 64