How do you pronounce "Hatsepshut" (the first female pharaoh of Egypt)?

Question

I need to know for school...don't want to sound like an idiot when In get back.

Answer 1

Hat-shep-soot

Answer 2

No my friend. Pharaoh did exist and Moses did lead Our creators people from bondage in Egypt. Cecil B. DeMille and the writers of The Ten Commandments (1956) used many of what you would call "Poetic License" tricks to improve a great movie. It was appropriate for Yul Brynner to say something so powerful and poignant (to the point) but I haven't read anywhere in the Bible where it states that Pharaoh actually used these words.

Answer 3

Pharaoh Pronunciation

Answer 4

I don't think anyone really knows. The first answer says 'as it's written' - but that could be:

Hat-seps-hut
or
Hats-ep-shut
or
Hats-eps-hut
or
Hat-sep-shut

Is the 'a' pronounced as in 'hat', ie short,
or is it long as in 'bark'

Is the 'e' long or short?

is the 'u' as in 'hut' or long again?

We don't know how Latin was pronounced - I was taught at school 50 years ago that all 'c's were hard - hence 'Kikero'. But that seems to have fallen by the wayside and soft 'c'are allowed and he's now 'Sissero'

So how are we expected to know how ancient Egyptian was pronounced with no modern descendant languages except, perhaps, church Coptic) ?

Answer 5

Haat Chep Soot

Answer 6

Hatt Shep suit

Answer 7

in egypt we pronounce it;
Ha-tish-p-suit
thats the arabic pronunciation of the name, of course that doesnt mean that she was actually called so.

Answer 8

I would like to tell you how you can pronounce it in serbian language. it sounds something like hachepsut.

Answer 9

Just like it's written Hat-sep-shut Egyptian names are phoenetic and pronounced just as they are written.

Answer 10

like this....Hat - Shep (like in shepherd)- Soot (like soot from a fireplace)