Ka ( · kꜣ · noun ) "soul, spirit; essence of a being"

Ka (signs: 𓂓 · transliteration: kꜣ) is a word in the Ancient Egyptian language related to psycholinguistics. It is usually translated as "(noun) soul, spirit; essence of a being." The Ancient Egyptian language belongs to the language family known as Afro-Asiatic.

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U+13093 in Unicode Consortium

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Definition of "Ka"

Source: A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

S.v., kꜣ

soul, spirit; essence of a being; personality; fortune; will of king; kingship; in pl. goodwill; phantom: iw pn n kꜢ "this phantom island"

Faulkner, CDME, 347. [View as image] [Read on OMNIKA]

Ka on page 347 of A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

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Citation

MLA 8

PsychLing Contributors. "Ka." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 25 Jul. 2023, psylng.org/mli/afro/egy/ka. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.

APA 6

PsychLing (2023, July 25). Ka. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/mli/afro/egy/ka

CMS 16

PsychLing Contributors. "Ka." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created July 25, 2023. Modified August 30, 2023. Accessed September 7, 2024. https://psylng.org/mli/afro/egy/ka.

Bibliography

CDME

Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian: Modernized by Boris Jegorović. Edited by Boris Jegorović. Oxford, United Kingdom: Griffith Institute, 2017.

Internet Archive Contributors. "Wayback Machine." San Francisco, CA: Internet Archive. Created October 24, 2001. Accessed July 21, 2023. https://web.archive.org. [Visit]

Wiktionary

Wales, Jimmy D., et al. "Wiktionary: The Free Dictionary." San Francisco, CA: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Created December 12, 2002. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://wiktionary.org. [Visit]

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