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Egyptian
Etymology
From m- (noun-forming prefix) + ḫꜣj (“to measure”) + -t (feminine ending).
Pronunciation
Noun
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- balance, scales
- Synonym: jwsw
- (figuratively) fair measurer of rightness or worth, especially in reference to fair-dealing officials
Inflection
Declension of mḫꜣt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḫꜣt
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḫꜣt
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References
- “mḫꜣ.t (lemma ID 74300)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 130.8–130.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 115
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 84, 129.
