zpt
Egyptian
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Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɛpɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: zepet
Noun
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- threshing floor [Old to Middle Kingdom]
- heap of grain stacked on the threshing floor to be threshed [Old to Middle Kingdom]
Usage notes
This word was the source of the phonetic value zp of the hieroglyph
, which represents a threshing floor.
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Inflection
Declension of zpt (feminine)
| singular | zpt |
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| dual | zptj |
| plural | zpwt |
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 434.12–434.18
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 221
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