ꜥꜣm

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Egyptian edit

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  1. A member of one of the foreign Asian peoples living north and east of the Egyptian borders; Asian, Semite [since the Old Kingdom]
    • c. 1555 BCE, Second Stela of Kamose
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      wh{m} jb.k jr.f ꜥꜣm ẖz m.k swrj.j m jrp n(j) kꜣmw.k m ꜥtḫ n.j ꜥꜣmw n(j) ḥꜣq.j
      May your heart fail, you wretched Asiatic! Look, I drink of the wine of your vineyard, which the Asiatics I have captured press for me.
  2. Syrian slave
  3. herdsman [since the 19th Dynasty]

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This word is conventionally translated as Asiatic; it is often found in opposition to the word for foreigners south of Egypt, nḥsj.

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  • Demotic: ꜥꜣm

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T14m
 

 m

  1. throwing stick, boomerang [18th Dynasty]

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