pr-bꜣstt
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]pr (“house”) + bꜣstt (“Bastet”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘House of Bastet’.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌpaɾuwbuˈʀistit/ → /ˌpaɾuwbuˈʀistiʔ/ → /pəɾuˈbesta/ → /pəɾuˈβestə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr bɑstɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: per-bastet
Proper noun
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m./f. topo.
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Ancient Greek: Βούβαστις (Boúbastis)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲡⲟⲩⲃⲁⲥϯ (poubasti)
- → Hebrew: פִּי-בֶסֶת
References
[edit]- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 423.8