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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxɛt imɑuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: sekhet-imau

Proper noun

 f

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