ꜥꜣt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: aat

Etymology 1

Noun

 f

1. precious stone or precious metal in general
2. (by extension) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Medical papyri]
   1. gallstone
   2. bladder stone

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt
[Old Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]
	in hieratic

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣt wḏḥ
• ꜥꜣt bjꜣt
• ꜥꜣt rwḏt
• ꜥꜣt ḥḏt
• ms ꜥꜣt

 

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜣ, ꜥꜣ.t, ꜥ.w, ꜥꜣj

Noun

 f

1. stone vessel

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣwt	ꜥꜣt
[Pyramid Texts]	[Old Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]
in the plural

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣt nt ẖr

 

Etymology 2

ꜥꜣj (“to be(come) big, great, important”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. great or important thing [since the Old Kingdom]
2. (in particular) significant difficult or bad thing

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣw	ꜥꜣ
		[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]

Derived terms

• n ꜥꜣt nt
• r ꜥꜣt

Noun

 f

1. distinguished goddess, great one (as a title for goddesses)

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Noun

 f

1. swelling, lump [Medical papyri]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣt

Noun

 f

1. rule, dominion [late 25th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Etymology 3

ꜥꜣ (“donkey”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

Noun

 f

1. (female) donkey, she-ass [Pyramid Texts and New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

jꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt	ꜥꜣt
[Pyramid Texts]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜣ.t, ꜥyꜣ.t

Etymology 4

Noun

 f

1. linen, linen cloth [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣt  

ꜥꜣ	ꜥꜣ	ꜥꜣwt	ꜥꜣt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• šzp-ꜥꜣt

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜣjw, ꜥꜣjw.t, ꜥꜣj, ꜥꜣj.t
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲁⲩ (iau)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲁⲁⲩ (eiaau), ⲉⲓⲱ (eiō), ⲓⲱ (iō)

Etymology 5

Noun

 f

1. a kind of beverage [Medical papyri]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣt (feminine)

singular	ꜥꜣt
dual	ꜥꜣtj
plural	ꜥꜣwt

References

• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34880)”, 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34890)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34860)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[3], 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34850)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[4], 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34900)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[5], 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34930)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[6], 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 21520)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[7], 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34920)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[8], 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
• “ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 34910)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[9], 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[10], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 40.5, 163.8, 163.12–163.14, 165.12–166.4, 166.6, 166.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 37–38
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132.