ḥbswt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥbs (“to clothe, to cover”) +‎ -wt.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. cloth, piece of cloth [New Kingdom]
  2. wrapping, covering
  3. clothing

Inflection

Declension of ḥbswt (feminine)
singular ḥbswt
dual ḥbswtj
plural ḥbswwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥbswt  



ḥbswt ḥbswt ḥbsyt ḥbstw
[New Kingdom] [Late Egyptian]
in hieratic before suffix pronouns

Descendants

  • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲉⲃⲥⲱ (hebsō)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲃ̄ⲥⲱ (hb̄sō)

References

  • “ḥbs.wt (lemma ID 103920)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], 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[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 66.13–66.15
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 168
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