ḫꜣ-tꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḫꜣ (“a thousand (mḥw-tꜣ)”) +‎ tꜣ (“land”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɑ tɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: kha-ta

Noun

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1. a decaroura, a measure of area equivalent to 10 sṯꜣwt (“arourae”) or 1000 mḥw-tꜣ (“cubits of land”) (about 2.76 hectares).

Inflection

Declension of ḫꜣ-tꜣ (masculine)

singular	ḫꜣ-tꜣ
dual	ḫꜣwj-tꜣ
plural	ḫꜣw-tꜣ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫꜣ-tꜣ  

ḫꜣ-tꜣ

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 105.
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN