ꜥꜣbt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑbɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: aabet

Etymology 1

ꜥꜣb (“to make an offering”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. offerings, especially a large set of offerings to the gods, hecatomb
2. food for the dead in the afterworld
3. food, provisions, etc. in general

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣbt  

ꜥꜣbt	ꜥꜣbt	ꜥꜣbt	ꜥꜣb	ꜥbt	ꜥbt	ꜥꜣbt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]

Derived terms

• tꜣ-ꜥꜣbt

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥbj.t, ꜥbj, ꜥb.t, ꜥb, ꜥꜥb.t, ꜣb

Noun

 f

1. a kind of jug used for washing [Pyramid Texts]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣbt  

ꜥꜣbt	ꜥꜣbt

Etymology 2

ꜥꜣb (“to be pleasing, to be selfish”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. (hapax) self-pleasingness, selfishness

Usage notes

This word may alternatively not be an independent word of its own, but rather merely a metaphorical use of the word above meaning ‘offerings’. It is only attested in the L2 version of the Instructions of Ptahhotep (pBM EA 10509) in the phrase kꜣw n ꜥꜣbt (“sustenance of (selfishness?)”).

References

• “ꜥꜣb.t (lemma ID 35330)” and “ꜥꜣb.t (lemma ID 35340)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 167.9–167.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38