ḫryt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛriːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: kheryt

Noun

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1. (uncountable) slaughter, butchery [since the Old Kingdom]
2. (uncountable) sacrificial animals [since the Old Kingdom]
3. (uncountable, figuratively) misfortune, ruin [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 322.6–323.7