mḥ tꜣ

Etymology

From mḥ (“cubit”) +‎ tꜣ (“land”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘a cubit of land‘; since land was parcelled into strips of 1 by 100 cubits, one such strip of 100 square cubits was considered ‘a cubit of land’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛħ tɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: meh ta

Noun

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1. a centaroura, a measure of area equivalent to one hundredth of a sṯꜣt (“aroura”) or 100 square mḥw (“cubits”) (about 0.0028 hectares).

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥ tꜣ  

mḥ tꜣ

References

• Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN