šnꜥw

Egyptian

Etymology

šnꜥ (“to detain”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

Noun
 m
  1. forced labor camp or workshop, labor establishment, often for captives and slaves [since the Old Kingdom]
  2. storehouse, magazine, storage space, especially for food (+ genitive: belonging to (someone), for storing (something))
  3. (Late Egyptian, rare) barracks
  4. (Late Egyptian) tomb

Inflection

Declension of šnꜥw (masculine)
singular šnꜥw
dual šnꜥwwj
plural šnꜥww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šnꜥw  










šnꜥ šnꜥ šnꜥ šnꜥw šnꜥw šnꜥw šnꜥ šnꜥ
[since the Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom]

Derived terms

References

  • “šnꜥ.w (lemma ID 155900)”, 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 507.12–508.25
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 269
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