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i also like the board game called khet where you have to move your pieces to deflect the lasers from the sides. it's like chess with lasers.
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So since Arabic has two letters that look the same, except ‘H’ (Mizrahhi ‘hhet’) is written without a dot and ‘kh’ (Ashkenazi ‘khet’) is the same letter with a dot over it, Judeo-Arabic spelled ‘H’ with ‘Hhet’ and ‘kh’ as ‘Hhet’+smitchik.
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As far as he knew the design survived on only one other sarcophagus, an alabaster beauty found by Zakaria Goneim in the unfinished step pyramid of Sekhem-khet.
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Administrative divisions: 21 provinces (khet, singular and plural);
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-- Started at 6 P.M., reached Shelling khet on the Prong
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Passed through one khet, the first cultivated ground we saw after leaving that on the Kamchick; then we came on to a few more Putars, in which limes continue abundant.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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At length we proceeded up the bed of a small river, Maumoo, which runs into the Booree Dihing close to the village: after wading along in the waters for two hours we arrived at a khet where we encamped.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Halted on an old rice khet, near a pool of tolerably clear water.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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[And the god said], "I will make it to contain as dwellers things (khet) like stars of all sorts;" thereupon the stars (akhekha) came into being.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
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The two Hebrew characters (khet on the right, dalet on the left) on p. 180 may appear reversed on some computer systems that have not been set to read right-to-left languages correctly.
erinmckean commented on the word khet
"The setat was equal to one square khet, where a khet measured 100 cubits. The setat could be divided into strips one khet long and ten cubit wide (a Kha)." Ancient Egyptian units of measure, Wikipedia
August 8, 2014
bilby commented on the word khet
If I had a khet, I think I'd call it Belle.
August 8, 2014