sḫt-jmꜣw

Egyptian

Etymology

From sḫt (“field”) +‎ jmꜣw (“a kind of tree”, in the plural) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally “field of ima-trees”.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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  1. the oases found west of the Nile delta collectively, sometimes in particular the Siwa Oasis

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫt-jmꜣw  


sḫt-ꜣjm sḫt-jmꜣw sḫt-jmꜣwt sḫt-jmꜣt
[18th Dynasty] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

References

  • “Sḫ.t-jꜣm (lemma ID 854936)”, 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 79.8
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[3], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 230.12–230.13
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