jmn-rn.f

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmn (“hidden”) +‎ rn (“name”) +‎ .f (“his”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘Hidden of his Name’, i.e. ‘he whose name is hidden’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn rɛnʔɛf/
- Conventional anglicization: amen-ren.ef

Proper noun

m

an epithet of the god Amun, occasioanlly also used of other gods

Usage notes

Distinct from jmn-rn, which is the name of a particular minor god mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmn-rn.f

jmn-rn.f

References

“jmn-rn⸗f (lemma ID 26270)”, 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 84.2–84.3
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 186.