sḏm ꜥš

Egyptian

Etymology

sḏm (“to hear, to obey”) +‎ ꜥš (“call, summons”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛd͡ʒɛm ɑːʃ/
  • Conventional anglicization: sedjem ash

Verb

 compound

1. to be a servant (+ n: to (someone), to serve (someone)) [New Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḏm ꜥš  

sḏmw jꜥš

Noun

 m

1. servant (+ genitive: to, of) [18th Dynasty to Late Period]

Usage notes

Often abbreviated to merely sḏm.

Inflection

Declension of sḏm ꜥš (feminine)

singular	sḏm ꜥš
dual	sḏmwj ꜥš
plural	sḏmw ꜥš

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḏm ꜥš  

sḏm ꜥš	sḏm ꜥš	sḏm ꜥš	sḏm ꜥ	sḏm ꜥ	sḏm ꜥ	sḏm ꜥš

Derived terms

• ḥrj-sḏmw-ꜥš
• sḏm ꜥš m st-mꜣꜥt
• sḏmt ꜥš

References

• “sḏm (ꜥš) (lemma ID 150630)” and “sḏm-ꜥš (lemma ID 150620)”, 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 227
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 389.13–390.4, 390.6–390.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 259