ⲧⲏⲃⲉⲧ

Coptic

Alternative forms

Fish on the tomb of Menna

• ⲧⲉⲃⲧ (tebt) — Bohairic
• ⲧⲃⲧ (tbt) — Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan

Etymology

From Demotic tbṱ, from Egyptian tbt.

Noun

ⲧⲏⲃⲉⲧ • (tēbet) m (plural ⲧⲏⲃⲉⲧ (tēbet))

1. (Fayyumic) fish

References

• Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 401
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN