ṯpḥt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛphɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: tjephet

Noun

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1. snake burrow
2. (rare) cave of a lion
3. a hypothetical cavern that serves as the source of the Nile
4. tomb
5. space or cavern in the afterworld
6. used as part of the names of various other specific caverns
7. (figuratively) chapel in a temple
8. (figuratively) throat, esophagus

Inflection

Declension of ṯpḥt (feminine)

singular	ṯpḥt
dual	ṯpḥtj
plural	ṯpḥwt

Alternative forms

Since the Middle Kingdom commonly metathesized as ḥtpt.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ṯpḥt  

tpḥt	ḥtpt
[Book of the Dead]	[since the Middle Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 364.11–366.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 304