dwꜣt
Egyptian
FWOTD – 25 January 2020
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈtʼuwʀat/ → /ˈtʼuwʀaʔ/ → /ˈtʼuːʔəʔ/ → /tʼeːʔ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /duːɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: duat
Noun
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- The Duat, the Egyptian afterworld [since the Pyramid Texts]
- In early conceptions, the region in the eastern sky where the sun and stars rise, which serves as the abode of the dead king
- c. 2255 BCE – 2246 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Merenre — south wall of the vestibule, line 6–7, spell 610.20–610.21:[1]
- sqr n.k r(w)dw ⟨jr⟩ d(w)ꜣt jr bw nt(j) sꜣḥ jm šzp jḥ-pt ꜥ.k
- Stairways have been beaten out for you to the afterworld, to the place where Orion is, and the Bull of Heaven will take your hand.
- Later, the region underneath the earth through which the sun passes at night, in which Osiris and the dead dwell
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 6–7:
- jmjw dwꜣt m sn-tꜣ ṯztjw m ksw
ḏrtjw m ṯḥw mꜣ.sn sw ntjw jm ḥr nr n.f - Those in the afterworld kiss the earth, and those in the desert hills bow down.
The ancestors are in joy when they see him, and the dead are in awe of him.
- jmjw dwꜣt m sn-tꜣ ṯztjw m ksw
- c. 1401 BCE, Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) Second Hour, closing text:
- šzp.n n.s dwꜣt j(w)f jr(j) pt r ꜥnḫ.k j(w)f m tꜣ dsr n.k
- The afterworld has received to itself the flesh belonging to the sky in order that you live, flesh, in the ground set aside for you.
- In early conceptions, the region in the eastern sky where the sun and stars rise, which serves as the abode of the dead king
- The underworld of a city as a place of dead gods [Late Period]
- Epithet for the grave [since the New Kingdom]
- Epithet for the crypt in the Temple of Dendera [Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dwꜣt
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| dwꜣt | dꜣt | dwꜣt | dwꜣt | dwꜣt | dwꜣt | dwꜣt | dwꜣt | ḏt | djt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [Pyramid Texts] | [Pyramid Texts] | [Pyramid Texts] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [Late Period] | [Late Period] |
Derived terms
- jmj dwꜣt
- dwꜣtj
Descendants
- Old Coptic: ⲧⲏ (tē)
- → English: duat
Proper noun
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- a hippopotamus goddess personifying the afterworld [Greco-Roman Period]
Noun
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- praise, adoration, worship [New Kingdom]
Inflection
Declension of dwꜣt (feminine)
| singular | dwꜣt |
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| dual | dwꜣtj |
| plural | dwꜣwt |
Noun
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- adoratrice [Old Kingdom, New Kingdom, Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
Declension of dwꜣt (feminine)
| singular | dwꜣt |
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| dual | dwꜣtj |
| plural | dwꜣwt |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dwꜣt
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| dwꜣt | dwꜣt | dwꜣ | dwꜣ | |||||||||||||||||
| [New Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
Noun
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- (medicine) a type of medicinal plant
Inflection
Declension of dwꜣt (feminine)
| singular | dwꜣt |
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| dual | dwꜣtj |
| plural | dwꜣwt |
Noun
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- Used in the phrase
pr dwꜣt (“‘House of Morning’, a place of purification”) [since the Old Kingdom]
- Used in the phrase
, referring to a royal cloakroom official [since the Old Kingdom]
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume V, Providence: Brown University, PT 610.20–610.21 (Pyr. 1717a–1717b), M