ḥbswt

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Egyptian

Etymology

ḥbs (to clothe, to cover) +‎ -wt.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. cloth, piece of cloth
  2. wrapping, covering
  3. clothing

Inflection

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲉⲃⲥⲱ (hebsō)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲃ̄ⲥⲱ (hb̄sō)

References

  • ḥbs.wt (lemma ID 103920)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 66.13–66.15
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 168