zššt

Egyptian

Etymology

zšš (“to play the sistrum”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

Noun
z
S
S		 tY8

 f

  1. sistrum [since the Middle Kingdom]
    Synonym: sḫm
    irz
    S
    S    		 tY8
     ― 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
Y8
could always be used in writings for both (though as a logogram only for sḫm), the hieroglyph
Y18
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)
singular zššt
dual zšštj
plural zššwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zššt  
z
S
S		 t
z
S
S		 t
Y18
z
S
S
Y18
z
S
S		 Y8
z
S
Y18
z
S		 Y8
z
S		 z
S
Y18
zSwSwY8
z
W W		 Y8
zššt zššt zšš zšš zš zš zšzš zšwšw zww
[Middle Kingdom to Late Period] [since the 18th Dynasty] [since the 18th Dynasty] [since the 19th Dynasty] [since the 19th Dynasty] [20th Dynasty] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms
  • ḥwt-zššt

References
  • “zšš.t (lemma ID 145620)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, 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
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