Egyptian
Etymology
sḏm (“to hear, to obey”) + ꜥš (“call, summons”).
Pronunciation
Verb
compound
- to be a servant (+ n: to (someone), to serve (someone)) [New Kingdom]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḏm ꜥš
Noun
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- servant (+ genitive: to, of) [18th Dynasty to Late Period]
Usage notes
Often abbreviated to merely sḏm.
Inflection
Declension of sḏm ꜥš (feminine)
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sḏm ꜥš
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| dual
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sḏmwj ꜥš
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| plural
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sḏmw ꜥš
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḏm ꜥš
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sḏm ꜥš
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sḏm ꜥš
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sḏm ꜥ
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sḏm ꜥ
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sḏm ꜥ
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sḏm ꜥš
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Derived terms
- ḥrj-sḏmw-ꜥš
- sḏm ꜥš m st-mꜣꜥt
- sḏmt ꜥš
References
- “sḏm (ꜥš) (lemma ID 150630)” and “sḏm-ꜥš (lemma ID 150620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 227
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 389.13–390.4, 390.6–390.7
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 259