mḥ

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

 m

1. forearm

 m

1. a cubit, a measure of length equivalent to 28 ḏbꜥw (“digits”) or 7 šzpw (“palms”) (about 52.5 centimetres).
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 24–28:

     hꜣ.kw r wꜣḏ-wr m dpt nt št-mḏwtj mḥ m ꜣw.s ḥmw mḥ m sḫw.s št-mḏwtj sqd jm.s m stp n(j) kmt

     I had gone down to the sea in a boat of a hundred twenty cubits in length and forty cubits in breadth, with a hundred twenty sailors in it of the choice of Egypt.

• mḥ tꜣ

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁϩⲓ (mahi)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲉϩⲓ (mehi)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲁϩⲉ (mahe)

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to hold
2. (transitive) to understand
3. (transitive) to capture
4. (transitive with n) to seize

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to fill
   1. (with m) to fill with
2. (transitive) to complete, finish
3. (transitive) to capture
4. (transitive) to inlay
5. (intransitive) to be(come) full
   1. (transitive with m or ẖr) to be(come) full of
6. (auxiliary with r and a verb in the infinitive) to begin doing

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲟϩ (moh)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩϩ (mouh)

1. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Forms ordinal numbers greater than nine from cardinal numbers.
2. (Late Egyptian) Forms ordinal numbers greater than one from cardinal numbers.

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩϩ- (mouh-)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁϩ- (mah-)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲉϩ- (meh-)

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 105, 174, 208–209, 257, 269, 461 page 103, 105, 174, 208–209, 257, 269, 461.
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 83
• Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 68
• Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 130