Egyptian
Etymology
sḫm (“to be powerful, to have power over”) + -t (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- (proper noun): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈsaχmat/ → /ˈsaχmaʔ/ → /ˈsaχma/ → /ˈsaχmə/
Proper noun
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- the goddess Sekhmet, personification of overmastering power [since the Pyramid Texts]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫmt
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abbreviation
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Descendants
- Old Coptic: ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ (sakhmi)
- → Ancient Greek: Σαχμίς (Sakhmís)
- → English: Sekhmet (learned)
Noun
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- (rare) power, capability, especially capability to overpower [since the Middle Kingdom]
- Synonym: sḫm
- (rare) fertility, capacity for procreation?
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫmt
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Noun
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- epithet for fire [Greco-Roman Period]
References
- “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142250)”, “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142240)”, and “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142270)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 249.17–249.18, 250.7, 250.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 241
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 359.
- ^ Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 203
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 59, 60, 63