zpt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛpɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: zepet

Noun

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1. threshing floor [Old to Middle Kingdom]
2. heap of grain stacked on the threshing floor to be threshed [Old to Middle Kingdom]

Usage notes

This word was the source of the phonetic value zp of the hieroglyph , which represents a threshing floor.

Inflection

Declension of zpt (feminine)

singular	zpt
dual	zptj
plural	zpwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zpt  

zp	zpt
[Old Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 434.12–434.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 221