ḥrt

ḥr (“upon, atop”) +‎ -t (feminine nisba ending), thus ‘(the one) being atop’. Some early writings of the sense ‘sky’ use determinatives that perhaps instead suggest a connection with the verb ḥrj (“to be distant”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: heret

 f

1. feminine singular of ḥrj

 f

1. sky

   Synonyms: pt, nwt

2. sky as the dwelling-place of gods and the dead king
3. (figuratively, with following genitive) temple, earthly dwelling-place (of a god)
4. temple roof
5. upper side, upper surface

In the Late Period this word is often found in the dual with unchanged meaning.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrt  

ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrj	ḥrj

 f

1. (female) supervisor, boss (+ genitive: of (wet nurses, harem women, a household, etc.))
2. epithet for the queen
3. epithet for the goddess Isis

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrt  

ḥrt

 f

1. inundation of the Nile
2. water in general

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrt  

ḥrt	ḥrt

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: heret

 f

1. rock-cut tomb

   Synonyms: jz, ḥꜣt, mꜥḥꜥt

2. particularly, one of the rock-cut royal tombs of the New Kingdom, such as those at the Valley of the Kings
3. necropolis (of a particular city)
4. afterworld, realm of the dead

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrt  

ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrtt	ḥrtt	ḥrt	ḥrj

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: horet

 f

1. female Horus, Horus-goddess, Horet
2. epithet for Isis or Hathor
3. conventional term introducing the serekh name of female pharaohs

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrt  

ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrt
		as a term introducing the serekh name	as a term introducing the serekh name

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: heret

 f

1. (rare) road, path, specifically one by land as opposed to water

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrt  

ḥrt	ḥrt	ḥrj

Traditionally linked as a descendant, but rejected as such by Černý:

• >? Coptic: ϩⲓⲏ (hiē), (plural) ϩⲓⲟⲟⲩⲉ (hiooue)

• “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107670)”, “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107680)”, “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107630)”, “ḥr.jt (lemma ID 108380)”, “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107650)”, “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107640)”, “Ḥr.wt (lemma ID 107610)”, and “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107660)”, 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 124.10–125.3, 142.3–142.7, 143.9–143.10, 143.13–143.19, 144.2–144.6, 144.8–144.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 175
• Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 297–298
• James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 35.