ⲁⲓⲃⲉ

Coptic

Etymology

Uncertain. Either from Egyptian

(ꜥbw, “dirth, filth; something bad”), or from Demotic ꜣb, jꜣb (“to stamp cattle with branding mark”), from Egyptian
(ꜣb, “branding mark”).

Noun

ⲁⲓⲃⲉ • (aibe) m

  1. (Lycopolitan) mark, stamp, blemish, stigma

References

  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3
  • TLA lemma no. C18 (ⲁⲓⲃⲉ), in: Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), [1]
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