ꜥšꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

From ꜥšꜣ (“to be numerous”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʃɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ashat

Noun

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1. (collective) multitude, crowd, company [since the Old Kingdom]
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.3–1.4:

     jr ḥms.k ḥnꜥ ꜥšꜣt msd t mrr.k

     If you sit with a multitude, hate the bread you love.

2. (collective) the masses, the people

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥšꜣt  

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^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], 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.