šnꜥw
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ʃɛnɑːuː/
- Conventional anglicization: shenau
Noun[edit]
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- forced labor camp or workshop, labor establishment, often for captives and slaves [since the Old Kingdom]
- storehouse, magazine, storage space, especially for food (+ genitive: belonging to (someone), for storing (something))
- (Late Egyptian, rare) barracks
- (Late Egyptian) tomb
Inflection[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šnꜥw
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “šnꜥ.w (lemma ID 155900)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
- 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