sḫt-jꜣrw

Egyptian

Etymology

sḫt (“field”) +‎ jꜣrw (“rushes, reeds”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally “field of reeds”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxɛt iɑruː/
  • Conventional anglicization: sekhet-iaru

Proper noun

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1. a region of the afterworld that serves as the home of those judged righteous after death

Descendants

• → English: Field of Reeds, Fields of Yaru (calque)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 32.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9