wḥꜣt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈwaħʀat/ → /ˈwaħʀaʔ/ → /ˈwaħjə/ → /ˈwaħi/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaħʀat/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaħʀaʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaħjə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈwaħi/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛhɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: wehat

Noun

 f

1. cauldron
2. cauldron in the afterworld in which evildoers are punished

Inflection

Declension of wḥꜣt (feminine)

singular	wḥꜣt
dual	wḥꜣtj
plural	wḥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥꜣt  

wḥꜣt	wḥt	wḥt	wḥꜣt	wḥꜣt	wḥꜣt
			[Middle Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]

Proper noun

 f

1. the Oasis region collectively
2. any one of the seven oases in this region

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥꜣt  

wḥꜣt	wḥꜣt	wḥꜣt	wḥꜣt	wḥꜣt
[Old Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[19th and 20th Dynasties]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
		in hieratic

Derived terms

• (wḥꜣtjw, “Oasis-dwellers”)

Descendants

• Demotic: wḥj
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲃⲁϩ (bah)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: واح (vah)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉϩⲓ (ouehi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe)
  • → Arabic: وَاحَة (wāḥa)
    • → Persian: واحه
    • → Indonesian: wahah
    • → Malay: wahah
    • → Ottoman Turkish: واحه (vahā)

      > Turkish: vaha (inherited)

    • → Tatar: ваһа (waha)
    • → Uyghur: ۋاھە (wahe)
    • → Uzbek: voha
  • → Ancient Greek: Ὄᾰσῐς (Óăsĭs), Αὔᾰσῐς (Aúăsĭs)
    • → Armenian: ովասիս (ovasis) (learned)
    • → Latin: Oasis (see there for further descendants)

References

• “wḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 48690)” and “wḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 48700)”, 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 347.12–347.23
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 66