sbꜣw

Egyptian

Etymology

sbꜣ (“to teach”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛbɑuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: sebau

Noun

 m

1. teacher, tutor [since the Old Kingdom]
2. master of a craft

Inflection

Declension of sbꜣw (masculine)

singular	sbꜣw
dual	sbꜣwwj
plural	sbꜣww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sbꜣw  

sbꜣw	sbꜣ	sbꜣyt
		[19th and 20th Dynasties]
		in hieratic

Derived terms

• jmj-r-sbꜣ

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲉ (sabe), ⲥⲁⲃⲏ (sabē)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲉ (sabe), ⲥⲁⲃⲏ (sabē)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲏ (sabē)
• Old Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲉ (sabe)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲉ (sabe), ⲥⲁⲃⲏ (sabē)

Noun

 m

1. teaching, education [since the Middle Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of sbꜣw (masculine)

singular	sbꜣw
dual	sbꜣwwj
plural	sbꜣww

Derived terms

• ꜥt-sbꜣw

References

• “sbꜣ.w (lemma ID 131320)” and “sbꜣ.w (lemma ID 131330)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 85.1–85.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 219