sḫmt

Egyptian

Etymology

sḫm (“to be powerful, to have power over”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• (proper noun): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈsaχmat/ → /ˈsaχmaʔ/ → /ˈsaχma/ → /ˈsaχmə/

• (proper noun): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsaχmat/
• (proper noun): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsaχmaʔ/
• (proper noun): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsaχma/
• (proper noun): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsaχmə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: sekhmet

Proper noun

 f

1. the goddess Sekhmet, personification of overmastering power [since the Pyramid Texts]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫmt  

sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
					in hieratic	abbreviation

Descendants

• Old Coptic: ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ (sakhmi)
• → Ancient Greek: Σαχμίς (Sakhmís)
• → English: Sekhmet (learned)

Noun

 f

1. (rare) power, capability, especially capability to overpower [since the Middle Kingdom]

   Synonym: sḫm

2. (rare) fertility, capacity for procreation^?

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫmt  

sḫmt	sḫmt	sḫmt
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Noun

 f

1. epithet for fire [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142250)”, “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142240)”, and “sḫm.t (lemma ID 142270)”, 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 249.17–249.18, 250.7, 250.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 241
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 359.