zššt

Egyptian

Etymology

zšš (“to play the sistrum”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 f

1. 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 zššt 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 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  

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^[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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], 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