bjꜣ (“example, model”) + -t.
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- character, disposition [since the Middle Kingdom]
- Reign of Senusret I, c. 1971–1926 BCE, Stela of Mentuhotep (London UC 14333), line 16:
- mnw pw n(j) z nfrw.f smḫ pw bjn bj(ꜣt)
- The monument of a man is his goodness; one who is evil of character is forgotten.
c. 1900 BCE,
The Instructions of Kagemni (
pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.3–2.4:
- rdj.jn ṯꜣt(j) njs.t(w) nꜣy.f n(j) ẖrdw m ḫt ꜥrq.f sḫr r(m)ṯw bjꜣt.sn m jjt ḥr.f
- So the vizier let his children be summoned after he understood the conduct of people, their character being what had come upon him.
- mood
- a good attribute of a person for which he or she is well-liked
Declension of bjꜣt (feminine)
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- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 441.16–441.19
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 80
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 273.