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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
Proper noun
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- the oases found west of the Nile delta collectively, sometimes in particular the Siwa Oasis
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫt-jmꜣw
References
- “Sḫ.t-jꜣm (lemma ID 854936)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 79.8
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 230.12–230.13