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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- immoral act, wrongdoing, sin
- ― jwtj btꜣ.f ― innocent (person), (person) with no sins
- ― jrt btꜣ r.sn ― to commit a sin against them
- ― btꜣ ꜥꜣ n m(w)t ― an evil deed deserving of death (literally, “evil deed great unto death”)
c. 1250 BCE,
Book of the Dead of Ani (British Museum EA 10470) chapter 30B, speech of Thoth, column 6–7:
- nj gm.n.tw btꜣ.f nb
- No sin of his has been found.
- illegal act, crime
- harm, misfortune
Usage notes
This word is commonly found with an attached suffix pronoun referring to the perpetrator of the wrong in question. In Late Egyptian it generally takes the article pꜣ.
Inflection
Declension of btꜣ (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of btꜣ
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive, Late Egyptian) to do wrong, to sin, to be(come) guilty of evil deeds
Noun
m
- evildoer, wrongdoer, criminal
Inflection
Declension of btꜣ (masculine)
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 483–484.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 85
