mrḥt

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Egyptian

Etymology

m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ wrḥ (to anoint) +‎ -t (feminine suffix)

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /mVˈɾiħjat//mVˈɾiħjaʔ//məˈɾeħa//məˈɾeħə/

Noun

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 f

  1. oil
    1. anointing oil, also used medicinally or as an offering
    2. fish oil, used as fuel for burning
    3. (rare) tree oil
  2. fat (of any kind of animal)

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References

  • mrḥ.t (lemma ID 72840)”, 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 110, 111.1–111.10
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 112
  • James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 167, 218.
  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48