st

Alternative forms

• sst

Interjection

st

1. Expressing a sudden desire for silence.

Noun

st (plural sts)

1. Abbreviation of street. (Usually as “st.” Also as “st”. Sometimes capitalized.)
2. Abbreviation of state.
3. Abbreviation of stone. (Not capitalized or usually spaced.)
   • 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

4. Abbreviation of store.
5. (knitting, crochet) Abbreviation of stitch.
   • 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 63:

     insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted

   • 2009, Sally Muir, Joanna Osborne, Diana Miller, Pet Projects: The Animal Knits Bible, page 71:

     Knit 1 row. Dec 1 st at each end of next row and at each end of every foll alt row until 2 sts rem.

   • 2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55:

     Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly […]

Pronoun

 c pl and f sg 3. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun

1. she, her, it, they, them; by Middle Egyptian often, but not exclusively, used for inanimate objects (see usage notes)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of st  

st	st	st
	Optional plural writing, later also for the singular by confusion with the plural	Optional plural writing

For variant forms after this pronoun merged with sw, see that entry.

Pronoun

 c pl and f sg 3. proclitic (‘subject form’) pronoun

1. she, it, they [since the 17th Dynasty]

Noun

 f

1. throne of the king or of a god seen as a king [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. seat of the dead in the heavens or in the sun-god’s barque
3. palace of the king
4. residence
5. household
6. administrative office
7. (with a god’s name) temple or home of a god in the sky or duat
8. grave
9. building
10. place, location
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 153–154:

      
      

      ḫpr js jwd.k tw r st pn nj zp mꜣ.k jw pn ḫpr(.w) m nwy

      When your parting from this place comes to pass, you will never again see this island, which will have turned into water.

11. position or rank
12. rightful place or seat
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 22–23:

      šfyt ḥtp.n.s st.s fꜣw mn(.w) r hpw.f

      Dignity, it has taken its seat, and magnificence is established according to his laws.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of st  

[Pyramid Texts]	[later]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Middle and New Kingdom]	[Middle and New Kingdom]

Romanization

st

1. Alternative transliteration of zt.