ḏbꜥwt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḏbꜥ (“finger”) +‎ -wt.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛbɑːuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: djebaut

Noun

 f

1. signet, signet ring, seal [since the Old Kingdom]
2. seal impression, seal

Inflection

Declension of ḏbꜥwt (feminine)

singular	ḏbꜥwt
dual	ḏbꜥwtj
plural	ḏbꜥwwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏbꜥwt  

ḏbꜥt	ḏbꜥwt	ḏbꜥt	ḏbꜥyt	ḏbꜥt
		[Old Kingdom]	[since the 18th Dynasty]

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲧⲃ̄ⲃⲉ (tb̄be)
• → Hebrew: טַבַּעַת

References

• “ḏbꜥ.wt (lemma ID 183530)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 566.5–566.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 322