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menat

menat noun: in Ancient Egypt, a heavy beaded necklace and musical instrument with a crescent-shaped plate in the front and a keyhole-shaped amuletic counterweight in the rear, considered sacred to Hathor.

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Noun

menat (plural menats)

  1. In Ancient Egypt, a heavy beaded necklace and musical instrument with a crescent-shaped plate in the front and a keyhole-shaped amuletic counterweight in the rear, considered sacred to Hathor.
  2. The keyhole-shaped counterweight of such a necklace, considered an amulet to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.

Proper noun capitalized: MENAT

MENAT

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

Forms of menat

pluralmenats

Origin of menat

Borrowed from Egyptian mnjt in the form of the 19th-century Lepsius-style transcription menȧt.

Questions about menat

What does menat mean?
Menat means in Ancient Egypt, a heavy beaded necklace and musical instrument with a crescent-shaped plate in the front and a keyhole-shaped amuletic counterweight in the rear, considered sacred to Hathor.
What part of speech is menat?
Menat can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of menat?
The plural of menat is menats.

Words near menat in the dictionary

  1. menarikam
  2. Menars
  3. MENASA
  4. Menasha
  5. Menasheh
  6. menat
  7. menatetrenone
  8. menats
  9. menaulion
  10. menavelings
  11. menazon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: menat (page history and authors); MENAT (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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