CT

(Egyptology) Initialism of Coffin Texts.


cartouche

Borrowed from French cartouche, from Italian cartuccia, from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartridge.

Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the scarabaeus, which we had also found in the casket.

1887, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 3, in She:

In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, a French priest who was a scholar of Eastern languages, had made the inspired guess that the cartouches set off words of great importance, such as the names of gods or rulers.

2013, Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, Profile 2014, page 49:

(Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.


kite

Borrowed from Coptic ⲕⲓⲧⲉ (kite), from Demotic qt, from Egyptian qdt.

[…] in the great Harris papyrus, […] precise quantities are recorded by weight in terms of the deben (about 2½ oz.) and the qite (¼ oz.) of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, without any reference to their value. […] Five pots of honey were bought for five qite of silver and an ox for five qite of gold.

1981, Pierre Montet, “The Arts and the Professions”, in A[ymer] R[obert] Maxwell-Hyslop, Margaret S[tefana] Drower, transl., Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 167:

[I]t was found necessary to employ media of exchange, and emmer wheat and silver were both used for this purpose. The latter was particularly favoured, but it was normally treated by weight, being measured in kite (9.53 g) and deben (10 kite) in purely Egyptian contexts, though foreigners such as the Jewish mercenaries at Elephantine could use their own metrological systems.

1983, Allen B. Lloyd, “The Late Period, 664–323 BC”, in B[ruce] G[raham] Trigger, B[arry] J[ohn] Kemp, D[avid Bourke] O’Connor, A. B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: A Social History (Cambridge History of Africa), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 328:

The scribe of the temple Sedy set out with the pure priest and goldsmith Tuty for the frames; they removed one deben and three and a half qite of gold, which they took for the chief of the gang Pameniu.

2003, Pascal Vernus, “The Plunder of Western Thebes”, in David Lorton, transl., Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt: Translated from the French, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

In the Saite and Persian Periods, Abnormal Hieratic and Demotic texts usually measure value as weights of silver. […] The weights of silver are almost always either the deben of 91 grams, or the kite of 9.1 grams. In the Persian Period, Demotic texts sometimes also refer to staters equated to two kite, or five to the deben.

2016, Brian Muhs, “The Saite and Persian Periods (664–332 BCE)”, in The Ancient Egyptian Economy: 3000–30 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 189–190:

The shekel was an Israelite unit of weight that appears to have weighed about 10g, and so it is the rough equivalent of the Egyptian kite, which also weighed about 10g.

2017 May, Ralph Ellis, “King David”, in Solomon, Pharaoh of Egypt, 4th edition, Cheshire: Edfu Books, →ISBN, page 57:

(Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).


Asiatic

Learned borrowing from Latin āsiāticus; equivalent to Asia + -atic.

(Egyptology) One of the people of ancient Canaan, Syria, or Mesopotamia; a Semite.


Te

From Coptic ⲧⲏ (tē), from Egyptian d-wA-t:dwAt (“dwꜣt”). Doublet of Duat.

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">dwꜣt</i>

(Egyptology, Egyptian mythology) The realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.


balsam

pl-noun

balsam m inan (related adjective balsamowy)

balsamowy (adjective)
balsam (nominative singular)
balsamy (nominative plural)
balsamu (genitive singular)
balsamów (genitive plural)
balsamowi (dative singular)
balsamom (dative plural)
balsam (accusative singular)
balsamy (accusative plural)
balsamem (instrumental singular)
balsamami (instrumental plural)
balsamie (locative singular)
balsamach (locative plural)
balsamie (singular vocative)
balsamy (plural vocative)
Balsamus (alternative Middle Polish)
balzam (alternative Middle Polish)
bałzam (alternative Middle Polish)
bałsam (alternative Middle Polish)

Inherited from Old Polish balsam. Compare Kashubian balzam and Slovincian balzóm.

(historical, Egyptology) embalming substance


PT

(Egyptology) Initialism of Pyramid Texts.


BD

Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead#English

(Egyptology) Initialism of Book of the Dead.


quadrat

Attested since 1683. Possibly from French cadrat or Italian quadrato (“square”), from Latin quadrātum (“square”). Doublet of quadrate and of etymology 1 above. So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.

(Egyptology) A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged.


syrinx

/sɪˈɹɪnd͡ʒiːz/

Learned borrowing from Latin sȳrinx (“reed; reed pipe, panpipes”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “panpipes; pipe-shaped object”), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of syringe.
The plural form syringes is a learned borrowing from Latin sȳringes.

der

And novv vvhen the people of all ſorts came flocking to the Court, in a tumultuous manner, Agathocles [grandson of Agathocles of Syracuse], taking the King vvith him, vvent and hid himſelf, in a place called Syringes, vvhich vvas a gallery or vvalk, vvhich had every vvay three vvalls and gates to paſſe, before one could come unto it.

1658, James Ussher, “The Sixth Age of the World. [The Macedonian Empire.]”, in The Annals of the World. […], London: […] E[van] Tyler, for J[ohn] Crook, […], and for G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 374:

The Former of theſe Tvvo Hermes [i.e., the god Thoth], vvas the Inventor of Arts and Sciences, the Latter [Siphoas], the Reſtorer and Advancer of them: the Firſt vvrote in Hieroglyphicks upon Pillars, ἐν τῆ Συριγγικῆ γῆ [in the land of Syringes] (as the learned Valeſius conjectures it ſhould be read, instead of Σηριαδικῆ.) VVhich Syringes vvhat they vvere, Am[mianus] Marcellinus vvill inſtruct us; […]

1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC, page 322:

There are alſo (in Egypt) Syrinxes, certain ſubterraneous and vvinding receſſes, vvhich (as it is ſaid) men skilled in antient rites, foreknovving the coming of the deluge, and fearing that the memory of their ceremonies ſhould be blotted out, hevved and faſhioned out of quarries in ſeveral places, vvith immenſe labour, and carved on the vvalls vvhich they had ſo hevvn, many kinds of fovvls, and vvild beaſts, and figures of animals innumerable, vvhich they called hieroglyphick (ſo ſome read the text) or ſacred characters.

1733, [Patrick Delany], “Dissertation XIV. Of Other Testimonies Relating to the Deluge.”, in Revelation Examined with Candour. Or, A Fair Enquiry into the Sense and use of the Several Revelations Expressly Declared, or Sufficiently Implied, to be Given to Mankind from the Creation, as They are Found in the Bible. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 247–248:

Further the Ramesseion (the Osmandyeion of the Descript.) with the alley of sphinxes, the Menephtheion (palace at Kurnah) and other monuments as late as Ptolemy the First's time. Grottoes and syrinxes all around.

1850, C. O. Müller [i.e., Karl Otfried Müller], F[riedrich] G[ottlieb] Welcker, “History of Art in Antiquity. Appendix. The Nations Not of Greek Race.”, in John Leitch, transl., Ancient Art and Its Remains; or A Manual of the Archæology of Art. […], new edition, London: A[rchibald] Fullarton and Co., […], →OCLC, note 3, page 216:

(archaeology, Egyptology) Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.

Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Egyptian#Adjective


deben

(Egyptology) A measure of weight used during the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, equivalent to about 13.6 grams.

(Egyptology) A measure of weight used during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, equivalent to 10 kite (about 91 grams).


פירמידה

he-noun

פִּירָמִידָה

פִּירָמִידַת

פִּירָמִידוֹת

פִּירָמִידָה • (piramída) f (plural indefinite פִּירָמִידוֹת, singular construct פִּירָמִידַת־)

פִּירָמִידָה (canonical)
piramída (romanization)
פִּירָמִידוֹת (indefinite plural)
פִּירָמִידַת־ (construct singular)

Internationalism, ultimately via French pyramide from Latin pyramis and Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).
Compare also Russian пирамида (piramida), Polish piramida, German Pyramide.


ST

(linguistics, Egyptology) Initialism of Standard Theory.


Aten

(Egyptology) The deified disc of the sun, as an aspect of Re or as the sole God under Akhenaten.


decan

(Egyptology, astrology) One of a collection of 36 small constellations or zodiacal subdivisions that appear heliacally at intervals of 10 days or are separated by approximately 10 degrees.


cartutx

Borrowed from Spanish cartucho, borrowed from French cartouche, borrowed from Italian cartoccio (“paper bag”).


Valley of the Kings

The tomb chapel has no burial shaft below it, and it has been suggested that Rekhmira was buried in a shaft tomb in the Valley of the Kings, although the location of this burial-place remains unknown.

1995, Ian Shaw, Paul Nicholson, “Rekhmira”, in The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, The British Museum Press, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 244, column 1:

(Egyptology) A valley in Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile, known for the tombs constructed there for the pharaohs.


Haunebu

It has been suggested that the Haunebu, an “ethnic” name known from most periods, were a partly assimilated group living in this environment and reported in recognizable form only in Classical texts.

1996, John Baines, Jerrold S. Cooper, Glenn M. Schwartz, editors, The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-First Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference, Eisenbrauns, page 362:

He studied ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic records and in Atlantis of the North (New York, Van Norstrand Reinhold Company, 1980) he discussed the mystery of the Haunebu or North People. The Haunebu were mentioned in texts dating to 2400 B.C.

1997, Jon Douglas Singer, Lost lands and cities beneath the sea: legends, folklore, and facts of the North Atlantic, page 5:

They were called Haunebu, and a treasurer of the Eleventh Dynasty, whose duty was the maintenance of safe frontier ports, boasts of himself as one “who quells the Haunebu.”

2003, James Henry Breasted, History of Egypt from the Earliest Time to the Persian Conquest, Kessinger Publishing, page 188:

(Egyptology, plural "Haunebu") A member of a people from the Aegean Sea.


Upper Egypt

(Egyptology) The part of Ancient Egypt south of Memphis, so named because the Nile flows south to north.


Lower Egypt

(Egyptology) The half of Ancient Egypt north of Memphis, the Nile Delta, so named because the Nile flows South to North.


Nine Bows

Calque of Egyptian psḏt pḏt, from psḏt (“nine”) + pḏt (“bow”).

(Egyptology) The traditional enemies of Ancient Egypt.


honorific transposition

en-noun

honorific transposition (countable and uncountable, plural honorific transpositions)

(linguistics, Egyptology) A shift in the sign order of a compound word or common phrase, to make certain religiously significant terms (e.g. nswt, nṯr, rꜥ) appear at the front of the word or phrase.


Inundation

(Egyptology) One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt.


was-sceptre

was-sceptres (plural)
was sceptre (alternative)
was-scepter (alternative)
was scepter (alternative)

Borrowed from Egyptian wꜣs (“was-sceptre, rule”), compounded with sceptre.

(Egyptology, British spelling) A type of sceptre with an animal head and a forked tail appearing in Ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphs.


Alto Egito

(Egyptology) Upper Egypt (southern part of Ancient Egypt)


Baixo Egito

(Egyptology) Lower Egypt (northern part of ancient Egypt)


Akhet

The concept of the Akhet was a practical explanation of why light fades gradually after sunset and appears gradually before sunrise, instead of disappearing and reappearing with the sun all at once.

2000, James P. Allen, Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, page 21:

Within the tomb, indeed within the coffin, the ‘house of life’, the deceased lay facing the east and the world of the living, the Akhet, and the rising sun.

2006, Peter Robinson, “The Locational Significance of Scatological References in the Coffin Texts”, in Current Research in Egyptology 2006: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium, page 147:

Recitation. The sky’s two reedfloats have been set by the Dayboat for the Sun, that the Sun might cross on them to where Horus of the Akhet is, to the Akhet.

2007, trans. James P. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, p.221

To the east and west were the akhets, or horizons — liminal zones in which the sun god and the dead king were prepared, either for rebirth into the upper world on the east or for successful entry into the other world on the west, the place of death and burial.

2008, Zahi A. Hawass, Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, page 33:

The heretic king Akhenaten believed the akhet appeared on the horizon to show him where to build Akhet-Aten, his new city in the desert… Amulets in the shape of the akhet represented Re the sun god and provided powerful protection to the wearer.

2010, Pat Remler, Egyptian Mythology, A to Z, page 6:

(Egyptology) The region in the sky in which the sun tarries just before it rises or after it sets.


Akhet

As Janssen noted, the information covering the first five days of III akhet is not quite the same in both ostraca.

2003, Koen Donker Van Heel, B. J. J Häring, Writing in a Workmen's Village: Scribal Practice in Ramesside Deir El-Medina:

The lunar month in question would have started on II Akhet 17.

2003, The synchronisation of civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. II: proceedings of the SCIEM 2000—EuroConference Haindorf, 2nd of May-7th of May 2001:

I mean it’s the time of the year — Akhet. The time when the river rises.… Akhet brings us food.

2009, Terry Deary, Egyptian Tales: The Plot on the Pyramid, page 5:

Favorite dates were the first month of the akhet season and the third month of the peret season.

2013, Koenraad Donker van Heel, Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt:

He was moving from Shemu to Akhet. But what had he harvested, in this last hard year?

2014, Wendy Wallace, The Sacred River: A Novel:

(Egyptology) One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt, coming after Shemu and before Peret; Inundation.


Peret

[Year 9, Xandikos day 4], which is equivalent to the Egyptian month, second month of Peret, day 18, of the King ‘The Youth who has appeared as King in the place of his Father’, the Lord of the Uraei ‘Whose might is great, who has established Egypt, causing it to prosper, whose heart is beneficial before the gods’…

1999, “The Demotic Text of the Memphis Decree on the Rosetta Stone”, in R. S. Simpson, transl., Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment, page 164:

In other words, the crew did not show up for work from I peret 19 to 22, only to resume work on I peret 23.

Fortunately, the absence record is picked up in the more complete Ostracon Cairo CG 25521, which records absences from IV Akhet 15 through to the end of I Peret.

2016, Mark Collier, “The Sting of the Scorpion”, in Mummies, Magic and Medicine in Ancient Egypt: Multidisciplinary Essays for Rosalie David:

(Egyptology) One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt, coming after Akhet and before Shemu; Emergence.


Shemu

The entry for IV shemu 25 on the reverse was written on the sloping edge of the ostracon to the right of the main text.

Beckerath, one of those who accepted Helck’s argument, paraphrased it as follows: The accession of Amenhotep I and thus the beginning of his regnal years apparently lay on III Shemu 9 or on one of two later days.

Across the Nile—still wide even in Shemu season when the water was low—Ra hung hot and gold over the western fields and their harvesters.

According to the statement above, Petosiris was to take the oath that relinquished his alleged rights to the tomb on 19 October 559 BCE, about three weeks later (day 13 of the second month of shemu in the same year 12).

(Egyptology) One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt coming after Peret and before Akhet; Harvest.


qite

Borrowed from Demotic qt, from Egyptian qdt, with the vowels supplied by the word’s descendant, Coptic ⲕⲓⲧⲉ (kite).

[I]n the great Harris papyrus, […] precise quantities are recorded by weight in terms of the deben (about 2½ oz.) and the qite (¼ oz.) of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, without any reference to their value. […] Five pots of honey were bought for five qite of silver and an ox for five qite of gold.

1981, Pierre Montet, “The Arts and the Professions”, in A[ymer] R[obert] Maxwell-Hyslop, Margaret S[tefana] Drower, transl., Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 167:

The scribe of the temple Sedy set out with the pure priest and goldsmith Tuty for the frames; they removed one deben and three and a half qite of gold, which they took for the chief of the gang Pameniu.

2003, Pascal Vernus, “The Plunder of Western Thebes”, in David Lorton, transl., Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt: Translated from the French, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(Egyptology) Alternative spelling of kite (“measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams)”).


QV

Initialism of queen valley; from Valley of the Queens.

Valley of the Queens
Valley of the Queens#English

(Egyptology) Prefix code for sites in the Valley of the Queens.


New Kingdom

Calque of German Neues Reich, eventually displacing New Empire, an older calque of the same term. Coined in the 1840s as part of a periodization of Ancient Egyptian history into Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.

Second Intermediate Period
Second Intermediate Period

Third Intermediate Period
Third Intermediate Period

(historical, Egyptology) Egypt after the Second Intermediate Period but before the Third Intermediate Period, from the time of the overthrow of the Hyksos under Ahmose I at the start of the 18th Dynasty to its de facto disintegration at the end of the 20th Dynasty.

Det nye Rige

Egypt from the 18th Dynasty through the 20th


lightland

Calque of German Lichtland, itself intended as a rough calque of Egyptian Ax-x*t:N18 (ꜣḫt), on the assumption that it relates to Ax-x:H_SPACE (ꜣḫ, “to be(come) splendid, radiant, glorious”). Apparently first used in English by Miriam Lichtheim (3 May 1914 – 27 March 2004).

Appearing on his father’s throne,
Like Re when he rises in lightland,
He places light above the darkness,
He lights the shade with his plumes.

1976, Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, volume II: The New Kingdom, page 83:

When you have dawned in eastern lightland, / You fill every land with your beauty.

2004, Thomas F. X. Noble, Western Civilization to 1500: The Continuing Experiment, page 28:

The Coffin Texts liturgy begins with spell 30:
“A cry goes out from the mouth of the great ones, the lords of the rḫy.t,
a plaintive cry sounds in the mouth of the veiled ones
at the thunderclap of the gods in Light-land,
when they see the terror on their faces,
the like of which they have never seen before,
when they see Osiris N.,
how he fares in peace on the roads of the West
in his form of a divine ancestral spirit,
after he has equipped himself with all the power of spirits,
when the great ones at the head of Light-land said to him: […]”
And yet the chiefs of Light-land, that is, of the liminal area between sky, earth, and the netherworld, where the sun rises and sets, greet the newcomer as son of the “beautiful West” […]

2007, Jan Assmann, Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt, page 151:

They were intended to assist Unas on his journey to the afterlife and ensure that he would dwell in ‘lightland for all eternity’.

2014, Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor:

(Egyptology) Synonym of Akhet (the region in the sky in which the sun tarries just before it rises or after it sets)


phonetic determinative

phonetic determinative (plural phonetic determinatives)

Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs

The Egyptological sense was apparently coined by Alan Gardiner in his 1927–1957 Egyptian Grammar.

Now if we look at the meaning of the five-rayed star (Fig. III-1,c,i) as an Egyptian hieroglyph [Gardiner, 1957, 487, symbols N13,14,15], we find that when the star was alone it was used as an ideogram or determinative (sometimes it was also used phonetically or as a phonetic determinative) in various words having to do with stars or constellations.

1987, Roger Herz-Fischler, A Mathematical History of Division in Extreme and Mean Ratio, page 52:

Although the standing ram, fully articulated and thus suggesting vitality, can function as a generic determinative, it also appears in the primary position, often accompanied by a phonetic determinative: either the flaming bꜣ-pot or the nẖnm-vase for ẖnm.

2008, Susan T. Hollis, The Ancient Egyptian “Tale of Two Brothers”: A Mythological, Relgious, Literary, and Historico-Political Study, page 65:

It is difficult to know whether the boat hieroglyph was merely intended as an ideogram, or as a phonetic determinative for the verb ḫd, ‘to fare downstream’.

2012, Toby A. H. Wilkinson, Royal Annals Of Ancient Egypt, page 116:

At this point, one can notice that “entire words entering bodily into the writing of etymologically unrelated words” is not a phenomenon limited to the so-called “phonetic determinatives”.

2015, Stéphane Polis, Serge Rosmorduc, “The Hieroglyphic Sign Functions: Suggestions for a Revised Taxonomy”, in Fuzzy Boundaries: Festschrift Für Antonio Loprieno, I, page 168:

(Egyptology) a type of hieroglyph that functions similarly to a phonogram, representing a series of consonants, but is unable to function autonomously and must follow other phonograms that together represent the same consonants


solar boat

(archaeology, Egyptology) A wooden burial boat intended to be used by a king to make celestial journeys in the afterlife.

(archaeology, Egyptology) The boat that, in myth, carries the sun on its journey across the sky; solar barque.


KV

Valley of the Kings
Valley of the Kings#English

(Egyptology) Abbreviation of Valley of the Kings.


Valley of the Queens

From valley + queen. From being a valley that was the burial place for the wives of pharaohs, i.e. queens.

(Egyptology) A valley in Egypt, that contains many tombs of Queens of Pharaohs.


aspektywa

aspektywa (nominative singular)
aspektywy (genitive singular)
aspektywie (dative singular)
aspektywę (accusative singular)
aspektywą (instrumental singular)
aspektywie (locative singular)
aspektywo (singular vocative)

Internationalism; compare English aspective.

(Egyptology, art) aspective (representation of an image on a flat plane as opposed to having a particular point of view)


shepherd king

The dark days of the "Shepherd" or "Hyksos" kings, that were to the imagination of later Egypt what the Babylonian Captivity was to the Jews, or the Danish Terror to early England.

1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 72:

(Egyptology) One of the Hyksos, kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt (fl. c. 1650–1550 BC).


上エジプト

上エジプト (canonical)
Kamiejiputo (romanization)

(Egyptology) Upper Egypt (southern part of Ancient Egypt)


下エジプト

下エジプト (canonical)
Shimoejiputo (romanization)

(Egyptology) Lower Egypt (northern part of Ancient Egypt)


ܢܘܪܢܝܐ

aii-noun

ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܵܐ • (nūrānāyā) m sg (plural ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܹܐ (nūrānāyē))

ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܵܐ (canonical)
nūrānāyā (romanization)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܹܐ (plural)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝ (absolute singular)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܝܼ (first-person possessed-form singular)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܲܢ (first-person plural possessed-form)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝ (construct singular)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܘܼܟ݂ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܵܟ݂ܝ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܲܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form second-person)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܵܐ (emphatic singular)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܹܗ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܵܗ̇ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܗܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form third-person)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܝܼܢ (absolute plural)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܝܼ (first-person possessed-form singular)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܲܢ (first-person plural possessed-form)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܲܝ (construct plural)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܘܼܟ݂ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܵܟ݂ܝ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܲܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form second-person)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܹܐ (emphatic plural)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܘܼܗܝ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܘܼܗ̇ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܲܝܗܘܿܢ (plural possessed-form third-person)

aii-infl-noun

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܝܼܢ

ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܘܼܟ݂

ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܵܟ݂ܝ

ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܲܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ

ܢܘܼܪܵܢܵܝܗܘܿܢ

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܘܼܟ݂

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܵܟ݂ܝ

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܘܼܗܝ

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܘܼܗ̇

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܲܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܲܝܗܘܿܢ

[nuːrɑːnɑːjɑː]

From ܢܘܼܪܵܐ (nūrā, “fire”) + -ܢܝܐ (-nāyā, the intensive attributive adjective ending). Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, calque of Ancient Greek πῡρᾰμῐ́ς (pūrămĭ́s) based of the popular folk etymology of it being derived of πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

calque

ܢܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܵܝܹܐ ܪ̈ܲܒܹܐ ܕܓܝܼܙܵܐ ܦܝܼܫܹ̈ܐ ܝܗ݇ܘܵܘ ܒܸܢܝܹ̈ܐ ܐܲܝܟ݂ ܩܲܒ݂ܪܹ̈ܐ ܓܵܘ ܡܸܨܪܹܝܢ ܥܲܬܝܼܩܬܵܐ.

nūrānāyē rabbē d-gīzā pīšē ìwā binyē ayḵ qaḇrē gāw miṣrēn ˁatīqtā.

The Great Pyramids of Giza were built as tombs in Ancient Egypt.

(architecture, Egyptology) pyramid (ancient massive construction)


mammisi

Borrowed from French mammisi, a neologism coined by Jean-François Champollion as if from Bohairic Coptic *ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (*mam̀misi) (a term otherwise unattested), from ⲙⲁ (ma, “place”) + ⲛ̀- (ǹ-, “of”) + ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (misi, “birth”) as a calque of earlier Egyptian pr-ms (“mammisi”, literally “house of birth”).

der

(Egyptology) a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god


spondist

Calque of Egyptian sqbb (“libator”), participle of sqbb (“to cool, to libate with water”), by way of Ancient Greek σπονδή (spondḗ, “libation”) suffixed with -ist.

Spondists in the temple of Nebt-Hotep;

1855, Dunbar Isidore Heath, The Exodus Papyri, London : J.W. Parker, page 175:

I am the priest in Tattuo, the spondist of Abydos, growing tall among the tall. I am the priest in Abydos, the day of calling the world. I see the hidden places of the Rusta. I am the maker of the Festivals of the Spirit Lord of Tattu.

1867, Egypt's Place in Universal History: an Historical Investigation in Five Books Christian C. J. Bunsen: Vol. 5, page 162:

DSJOT-MEN. A spondist of the temple of Amen. Period uncertain. DSJOT-MONTH. A spondist of Amen, and prophet and overseer of the sacred scribes of the god. Period uncertain.

1876, William Ricketts Cooper, An Archaic Dictionary: Biographical, Historical, and Mythological: From the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Etruscan Monuments and Papyri, page 177:

"you who are in the service of Osiris or of Anubis," "priest, prophet, scribe, spondist, ministrant, male or female, every man and every woman passing by this tomb, statue, tablet or shrine, whether you be passing northwards or southwards as you desire to enjoy the favour of the king […]"

(archaic, Egyptology) An Ancient Egyptian priest responsible for pouring libations of water.


penis-cover

(anthropology, Egyptology, very rare) A covering or concealment of the penis found on certain statues in Ancient Egypt.


New Empire

(archaic, historical, Egyptology) Synonym of New Kingdom.


Keftian

We see such gold ox-heads figured both in the inventories on the clay tablets at Knossos and on the Tomb of Rekhmara, as part of the tribute brought by the Keftians, the men of the isles in the midst of the sea, to the Egypt of the early fifteenth century.

1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 15:

(Egyptology) A member of an unidentified ancient people of the Mediterranean, sometimes linked with the Minoans, known from their interactions with the Ancient Egyptians.


ممی

مَمی (canonical)
mamī (romanization)
ममी (Hindi)
مَمی (direct singular)
مَمِیاں (direct plural)
مَمی (oblique singular)
مَمِیوں (oblique plural)
مَمی (singular vocative)
مَمِیو (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English mummy. Doublet of مومِیا (momiyā).