pr-ḫnr

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (house) +‎ ḫnr (harem) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the harem’. Since the 19th Dynasty the second element is sometimes written and reanalyzed as ḫntj (foremost), thus ‘foremost house’.

Pronunciation

Noun


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  1. harem [since the 18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of pr-ḫnr (masculine)
singular pr-ḫnr
dual prwj-ḫnr
plural prw-ḫnr

Alternative forms

References

  • pr-ḫnr (lemma ID 60790)”, 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, page 515
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 297.3–297.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90