ꜥšꜣt
Egyptian
Etymology
From ꜥšꜣ (“to be numerous”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑːʃɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: ashat
Noun
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- multitude, crowd
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.3–1.4:
- jr ḥms.k ḥnꜥ ꜥšꜣt msd t mrr.k
- If you sit with a multitude, hate the bread you love.
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥšꜣt
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References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 229.6–229.8
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 363, 458.