sḫmt

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
sxmx
t

 f

  1. the goddess Sekhmet, personification of overmastering power [since the Pyramid Texts]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫmt  
ssxmx
t
sxmH_SPACE
x		 m&t
sxmm&tI12
sxmx
t		 I12
sxmx
t
C232
sxmx
t Z5		 I12
C232
S158
t
H8
sxmx t
M		 H8
sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt
[Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
in hieratic abbreviation

Descendants
  • Old Coptic: ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ (sakhmi)
  • → Ancient Greek: Σαχμίς (Sakhmís)
  • → English: Sekhmet (learned)

Noun
ssxmxmt

 f

  1. (rare) power, capability, especially capability to overpower [since the Middle Kingdom]
    Synonym: sḫm
  2. (rare) fertility, capacity for procreation?

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫmt  
sxmmt
Z2ss
sxmmt
Y1
Z2ss
sxmt
sḫmt sḫmt sḫmt
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period]

Noun
sx
t		 Q7

 f

  1. epithet for fire [Greco-Roman Period]

References
  • “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142250)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
  • “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142240)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
  • “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142270)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, 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.
  1. Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 203
  2. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 59, 60, 63
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