Egyptian edit

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Etymology 1 edit

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AmQ7

 2-lit.

  1. (intransitive, of fire) to burn
  2. (intransitive) to be consumed by fire, to burn (+ m: to be burned by (fire))
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 130–131:
      prrD54
      n
      n
      A
      mx
      t
      Q7ma
      f
      xprr
      n
      rsD35
      n
      wA1Hn
      a
      AmQ7n
      y
      D35
      n
      wA1mHr
      r
      ibsn
      Z2
      pr.n nꜣ m ḫt m-ꜥ.f ḫpr.n r.s nn wj ḥnꜥ(w) ꜣm.nj nn wj m ḥr(j) jb.sn
      They went up in flames because of it. But it happened while I wasn’t with them, and they burned up while I wasn’t in their midst.
  3. (transitive) to cause to be consumed by fire, to burn (+ m: to burn with (fire))
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Etymology 2 edit

From ꜣmm (to grasp, to seize).

Proper noun edit

AmE22

 m

  1. the Seizer: epithet for various divine entities in lion-like forms [Greco-Roman Period]
    1. epithet of Horus in the form of a lion
    2. epithet of Horus in the form of a hieracosphinx
    3. epithet of the king, presumably as Horus
    4. used in reference to a gargoyle or waterspout, presumably in the form of Horus as a lion
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