Bibliotheca Polyglotta

▪ The D-stem (form II) vb. is probably denominative, applicative, from the obsol. n. ^†ḥināṭ or ^†ḥanūṭ, »a perfume or odoriferous substances of any kind that are mixed for a corpse, in particular, or for grave-clothes and for the bodies of the dead, consisting of ḏarīraẗ, or musk, or ambergris, or camphor, or other substance, namely, Indian cane, or sandal-wood, bruised« – Lane ii 1865.
▪ The latter is perhaps connected to another value of the root ḤNṬ, namely ‘to ripen, become mature, ready to get harvested’, after the sweet odour that the leaves of a certain tree, or shrub, emit when they have reach a stage of maturity.

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▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤNṬ-2 Hbr ḥānaṭ, Aram ḥᵊnaṭ, Ar ḥanaṭa, ḥannaṭa, Gz ḥanaṭa ‘embaumer’, Amh annäṭä ‘encenser, parfumer, faire des fumigations’; – EgAr ḥiniṭ ‘délicieux’. – (?) -3 Hbr *ḥānaṭ ‘mûrir’, Ar ḥanaṭa ‘être mûr’, ḥāniṭ ‘rouge; arrivé à maturité’.

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▪ According to Lane ii 1865, the form II vb. ḥannaṭa means ‘to prepare a dead person with ḥanūṭ for burial’. So, it looks as if the vb. is denom., dependent on the noun. ḥanūṭ, however, (still following Lane ii 1865) is derived from the vb. I, sup>†ḥanaṭa u (ḥunūṭ), said of [a tree called] rimṯ, signifying that its colour became white inclining to yellowness, and its odour sweet.
▪ For discussion of possible relations with other values of the root cf. ↗ḤNṬ.

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► ^†taḥannaṭa, vb. V, to be, or become, prepared (for burial) with ḥanūṭ; to make use of ḥanūṭ for oneself (Lane ii 1865): tD-stem, quasi-pass. / autobenefact.
► ^†ĭstaḥnaṭa, vb. X, to desire to be prepared for burial with ḥanūṭ; (hence the meaning) to embolden o.s., become emboldened, encounter death, holding his life in light esteem (Lane ii 1865): tŠ-stem, requestative.

► ḥināṭaẗ, n.f., embalming: vn. I.
► taḥannuṭ, n., mummification: vn. V.
► muḥannaṭ, adj., mummified: PP II.

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