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is the Egyptian word meaning
"place", the noun. But, it also is used as a way of converting an
adjective into a noun. In that case, it means "quality of". It is
sometimes written as
. Here are some
examples of adjectives which become nouns:

See the Egyptian alphabet to see what sounds the transliteration symbols represent.