bjꜣt
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /biɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: biat
Noun
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- character, disposition [since the Middle Kingdom]
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.3–2.4:
- rdj.jn ṯꜣt(j) njs.t(w) nꜣy.f n(j) ẖrdw m ḫt ꜥrq.f sḫr r(m)ṯw bj(ꜣ)t.sn m jjt ḥr.f
- So the vizier let his children be summoned after he understood the conduct of people, their character being what had come upon him.
- mood
- a good attribute of a person for which he or she is well-liked
Inflection
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bjꜣt
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 273.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 441.16–441.19