ⲃⲟⲧⲉ

Coptic

Alternative forms

ⲃⲟϯ (boti) — Bohairic

Etymology

From Demotic btw, bty (“abomination, crime”), from Egyptian btꜣ (“crime”)

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Noun

ⲃⲟⲧⲉ • (bote) f

(Sahidic) abomination, detestable thing

References

Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 45
Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 28
TLA lemma no. C560 (ⲃⲟⲧⲉ), in: Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA),

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