Egyptian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- rush reed
- (reed) pen
Inflection
Declension of ꜥr (masculine)
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ꜥr
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| dual
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ꜥrwj
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| plural
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ꜥrw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥr
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| ꜥr
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ꜥrw
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ꜥrj
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ꜥr
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| [Old Kingdom]
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[New Kingdom]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- pebble, including as used as a game piece [since the Middle Kingdom]
- pit, stone of a fruit [Medical papyri]
Inflection
Declension of ꜥr (masculine)
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ꜥr
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| dual
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ꜥrwj
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| plural
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ꜥrw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥr
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| ꜥr
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ꜥr
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ꜥꜣnwrw
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ꜥꜣjrrw
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| [Middle Kingdom]
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[Medical Papyri]
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[New Kingdom]
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[New Kingdom]
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in hieratic
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in hieratic
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: ꜥl
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲗ (al)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲗ (al)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲉⲗ (el)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲗ (al)
Etymology 3
From jꜥr (“to ascend”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- stairway [Theban royal tombs and Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
Declension of ꜥr (masculine)
| singular
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ꜥr
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| dual
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ꜥrwj
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| plural
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ꜥrw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥr
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| ꜥr
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ꜥr
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| [Greco-Roman Period]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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abbreviation
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Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (rare) goat [since the Medical Papyri]
Inflection
Declension of ꜥr (masculine)
| singular
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ꜥr
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| dual
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ꜥrwj
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| plural
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ꜥrw
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References
- “ꜥr (lemma ID 39160)”, “ꜥr (lemma ID 39180)”, “ꜥr (lemma ID 39150)”, and “ꜥr (lemma ID 39170)”, 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, pages 208.3–208.7, 208.10–208.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 45
- ^ Compare Osing, Jürgen (1976) Die Nominalbildung des Ägyptischen, Mainz/Rhein: von Zabern, →ISBN, page 846.