English Explanatory Dictionary

Tybi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The fifth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Tybi has been in roughly January.

Word forms

Tybi Tobi Tubah Tubi

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τυβί (Tubí), from Egyptian t-A-a-b-t:Z5-W3:ra (tꜣ-ꜥꜣbt, literally “the offering”). Compare Coptic Ⲧⲱⲃⲓ (Tōbi).

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