ꜥšꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

From ꜥšꜣ (“to be numerous”).

Pronunciation

Noun
aSAAtA1 B1
Z2

 f

  1. (collective) multitude, crowd, company [since the Old Kingdom]
  2. (collective) the masses, the people

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥšꜣt  
a
S
t		 aSAA1A1A1
aSA
t Z2ss
aSAA&tA1
Z2
aSA
t		 A1 B1
Z2
aSA
Z2
ꜥšꜣt ꜥšꜣt ꜥšꜣt ꜥšꜣt ꜥšꜣ
[Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [since the New Kingdom]

Descendants
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁϣⲏ (ašē)

References
  • “ꜥšꜣ.wt (lemma ID 41050)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 229.6–229.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 49
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 363, 458.
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