Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈwaħʀat/ → /ˈwaħʀaʔ/ → /ˈwaħjə/ → /ˈwaħi/
Noun
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- cauldron
- cauldron in the afterworld in which evildoers are punished
Inflection
Declension of wḥꜣt (feminine)
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wḥꜣt
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wḥꜣtj
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wḥꜣwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥꜣt
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wḥt
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wḥt
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wḥꜣt
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Proper noun
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- the Oasis region collectively
- any one of the seven oases in this region
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥꜣt
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in hieratic
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: wḥj
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲃⲁϩ (bah)
- → Ottoman Turkish: واح (vah)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉϩⲓ (ouehi)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe)
- → Arabic: وَاحَة (wāḥa)
- → Persian: واحه
- → Indonesian: wahah
- → Malay: wahah
- → Ottoman Turkish: واحه (vahā)
- > Turkish: vaha (inherited)
- → Tatar: ваһа (waha)
- → Uyghur: ۋاھە (wahe)
- → Uzbek: voha
- → Ancient Greek: Ὄᾰσῐς (Óăsĭs), Αὔᾰσῐς (Aúăsĭs)
- → Armenian: ովասիս (ovasis) (learned)
- → Latin: Oasis (see there for further descendants)
References
- “wḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 48690)” and “wḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 48700)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 347.12–347.23
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 66