zft
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See also: zfṯ
Egyptian
Etymology 1
Related to zf (“to slaughter, cut up”), zfṯ (“to slaughter”). Also compare Arabic سيف (sayf), Amharic ሰይፍ (säyf), Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈzuːfat/ → /ˈsuːfaʔ/ → /ˈsuːfa/ → /ˈseːfə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɛfɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: zefet
Noun
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Inflection
Alternative forms
Descendants
Etymology 2
zf (“to be(come) mild, merciful”) + -t.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɛfɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: zefet
Noun
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- (hapax) clemency, mercy, gentleness
References
- “zf.t (lemma ID 133420)” and “sf.t (lemma ID 133500)”, 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 442.7–442.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 224
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN