zššt

Egyptian

Etymology

zšš (“to play the sistrum”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛʃɛʃɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: zesheshet

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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) 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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), while by the Greco-Roman Period it came to instead be used exclusively with sḫm.

Inflection

Declension of zššt (feminine)

singular	Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
dual	zšštj
plural	zššwt

Alternative forms

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

ḥwt-zššt

References

“zšš.t (lemma ID 145620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 486.19–487.6
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 248

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