ḥbswt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥbs (“to clothe, to cover”) +‎ -wt.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛbsuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: hebsut

Noun

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1. cloth, piece of cloth [New Kingdom]
2. wrapping, covering
3. clothing

Inflection

Declension of ḥbswt (feminine)

singular	ḥbswt
dual	ḥbswtj
plural	ḥbswwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥbswt  

ḥbswt	ḥbswt	ḥbsyt	ḥbstw
		[New Kingdom]	[Late Egyptian]
		in hieratic	before suffix pronouns

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲉⲃⲥⲱ (hebsō)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲃ̄ⲥⲱ (hb̄sō)

References

• “ḥbs.wt (lemma ID 103920)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 66.13–66.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 168