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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- oil
- anointing oil, also used medicinally or as an offering
- fish oil, used as fuel for burning [New Kingdom]
- (rare) tree oil
- fat (of any kind of animal)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mrḥt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mrḥt
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mrḥ
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mrḥw
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mrt
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Egyptian: mrḥ m (“asphalt”)
- Demotic: mrḥ
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲏϩⲉ (amrēhe)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲣⲉϩⲓ (mrehi), ⲉⲙⲣⲉϩⲓ (emrehi), ⲙⲃⲣⲉϩⲓ (mbrehi), ⲃⲣⲉϩⲓ (brehi), ⲉⲣⲡⲣⲉϩⲓ (erprehi)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲉϩⲓ (amrehi)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲣⲏϩⲉ (amrēhe), ⲁⲙⲣⲉϩⲉ (amrehe)
References
- “mrḥ.t (lemma ID 72840)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], 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[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 167, 218.
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48