ꜣḫt

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑxɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: akhet

Related to ꜣḫ (“akh”).

 f

1. Akhet; the region in the sky in which the sun tarries just before it rises (later also the region in which it tarries just after it sets), giving rise to the twilight
2. (figuratively) royal tomb

Often conventionally, but misleadingly, translated as horizon.

• → English: Akhet

From jꜣḫj (“to be inundated”).

 f

1. inundation season; the first of the three Egyptian seasons, spanning from July to November.

• → English: Akhet

From ꜣḫ (“to be effective, to be useful”) +‎ -t.

 f

1. something beneficial or useful
   • c. 1477 BCE, Year 2 inscription of Thutmose III on the eastern outer wall of the oldest part of the temple of Semne, line 4:^[1]

     zꜣ nḏ.tj jr.f ꜣḫt n jtw.f twt(w) sw

     A solicitous son does good for his fathers who formed him

From jꜣḫ (“to shine”) +‎ -t.

 f

1. flame, fire [Book of the Dead to Greco-Roman Period]

 f

1. sacred eye of a god

 f

1. uraeus

 f

1. arable land [New Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 20:

     nprj dj.f sm(w).f nb ḏf(ꜣ) n(j) ꜣḫt bs.f ssꜣw dj.f sw m tꜣw nb(w)

     Nepri gives all his plants, the provisions of the field, bringing forth satiety and giving it to all lands.

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 13.2, 15.10–15.16, 16.15–17.9, 17.12–17.23, 18.9–18.10, 18.12–18.13, 18.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 4–5
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 22, 107, 296.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, pages 136, 242
• Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 289