zp

See also: ZP, and zpꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /zap/ → /sap/ → /sap/ → /sap/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /zap/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /sap/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /sap/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /sap/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: zep

Noun

 m

1. time (as in the first time or many times), occurrence, instance
2. occasion, chance
3. mishap, mischance, incident
4. matter, business, affair
5. state, condition (of a thing)
6. character, kind (of a person)
7. cause, venture
8. deed, act
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 10–11:

     jwꜥw gbb (n)syt tꜣwj mꜣ.f ꜣḫw.f swḏ.n.f n.f sšm tꜣw n mꜥr n(j) zpw jr.n.f

     the heir of Geb in the kingship of the Two Lands (Egypt), whose prowess he (Geb) saw, to whom he has bequeathed the guidance of the lands because of the success of the deeds he has done.

9. fault, misdeed
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 22:

     jr ḏwt r šd-ḫrw wd qn zp.f spr(.w) r.f

     Evil has been done to the Disturber (Set), he who committed violence; his misdeed has caught up with him.

10. article, item, point (in a text)
11. (mathematics) times (in multiplication)
12. (usually in the plural) medicinal concoction, medicine, remedy, dose
13. portion of food

Inflection

Declension of zp (masculine)

singular	zp
dual	zpwj
plural	zpw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zp  

zp	sp	zpj
	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]
abbreviation, initially chiefly used in counting; also common in other uses during the Greco-Roman Period	rare	rare

Derived terms

• jw zp
• mjnj zp
• m zp
• zpwj snwj
• zp n jwtt
• zp tpj

 

Related terms

• zpj

Descendants

• Demotic: sp
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲥⲟⲡ (sop)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲥⲟⲡ (sop)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲥⲁⲡ (sap)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲥⲁⲡ (sap)
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲥⲁⲡ (sap)

Etymology 2

From zpj (“to remain”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: zep

Noun

 m

1. rest, remainder, remnant
2. particularly, remaining food

Inflection

Declension of zp (masculine)

singular	zp
dual	zpwj
plural	zpw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zp  

zpj

[18th Dynasty]

Descendants

• Demotic: sp

References

• “zp (lemma ID 854543)” and “zp (lemma ID 132330)”, 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 435.1–438.12, 438.17–439.5, 439.16–440.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 221–222
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 104, 239, 311.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 84