Egyptian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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DAAmXrdA1Z3

 m

  1. (collective) male children or youths, boys, young men
  2. (collective) (male) youth of a particular place
  3. (collective) men as opposed to women or children
  4. (collective) troops, soldiers
  5. (collective) coming generation, generation yet to be born
  6. (collective) peers, cohort, generation, people of the same age

Usage notes

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This word is found in both the singular and the plural, both with identical collective meaning, and often both with identical forms. Only the surrounding grammatical context can make clear which way the word is to be read and construed.

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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Descendants

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  • Sahidic Coptic: ϫⲱⲙ (čōm)

Noun

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DAmE1Z3

 m

  1. (collective) young cattle, larger calves [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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References

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  • ḏꜣm (lemma ID 182160)”, 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
  • ḏꜣm (lemma ID 182170)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 523.4–524.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 319