Egyptian
Etymology
zšš (“to play the sistrum”) + -t.
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- sistrum [since the Middle Kingdom]
- Synonym: sḫm
- ― jrj zššt ― to play sistrum (+ n: for (someone); + n ḥr: before (someone))
Usage notes
The terms
sḫm and
zššt seem to have at times referred to two different kinds of
sistrum; while the hieroglyph
could always be used in writings for both (though as a
logogram only for
sḫm), the hieroglyph
was originally only used in writings of
zššt, while by the Greco-Roman Period it came to instead be used exclusively with
sḫm.
Inflection
Declension of zššt (feminine)
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zššt
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| dual
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zšštj
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| plural
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zššwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zššt
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zššt
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zšš
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zšš
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zš
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zš
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zšzš
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zšwšw
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zww
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[Middle Kingdom to Late Period]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[since the 19th Dynasty]
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[since the 19th Dynasty]
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[20th Dynasty]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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Derived terms
References
- “zšš.t (lemma ID 145620)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 486.19–487.6
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 248