ⲁⲓⲃⲉ
Coptic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Either from Egyptian
(ꜥbw, “dirth, filth; something bad”), or from Demotic Egyptian ꜣb, jꜣb (“to stamp cattle with branding mark”), from Egyptian
(ꜣb, “branding mark”).
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Noun
[edit]ⲁⲓⲃⲉ • (aibe) m
- (Lycopolitan) mark, stamp, blemish, stigma
References
[edit]- Černý, Jaroslav (1976), Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3
- TLA lemma no. C18 (ⲁⲓⲃⲉ), in: Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), [1]