mꜣꜥt

An abstract noun formed from mꜣꜥ (“to direct, to be just, to be true”) +‎ -t (“feminine ending”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɑʔɑːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: maat

 f

1. truth
2. right action, righteousness, virtue
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 23–24:

     smn mꜣꜥt n nb.s rdjw sꜣ r jsft

     Righteousness has been established for its possessor, and the back is turned on wrong.

3. blamelessness, innocence
4. justice, fairness
5. right order in the state or cosmos

• jzft
• grg

• nb-mꜣꜥt

• Demotic: mꜣꜥt
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲏⲉ (mēe), ⲙⲓⲉ (mie)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲏⲓ (mēi), ⲙⲉⲓ (mei)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ (mei), ⲙⲉⲉⲓ (meei), ⲙⲏⲓ (mēi)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙⲏⲉ (mēe)
  • Old Coptic: ⲙⲉ (me)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲉ (me), ⲙⲉⲉ (mee), ⲙⲏⲉ (mēe)
• → English: maat

 f

1. Maat, the goddess personifying the above concepts

• nfr-mꜣꜥt

• → English: Maat

• 𓁦, 𓆄

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 97, 99, 119–121, 126, 214, 254, 273, 277, 281.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 112