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rꜥ

Demotic edit

Etymology edit

From Egyptian
r
a		 ra
 (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

 ⁠  m

  1. sun
  2. (prefixed with pꜣ) the god Ra

Descendants edit

  • Coptic: ⲣⲏ (rē)
    • → English: Re

References edit

  • Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 242

Egyptian edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Noun edit

r
a		 ra

 m

  1. sun [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. (in fixed expressions) day (period of daylight) [since the Old Kingdom]
  3. (rare) sun of one particular day [Middle Kingdom literature]

Inflection edit

Declension of rꜥ (masculine u-stem)
singular rꜥ
dual rꜥwj
plural rꜥw

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  
r
a		 raG7
ra
r
a
r
a		 ra
Z1
r
a		 ra
Z1		 G7
r
a		 raA40
ra
Z1		 A40
ra
Z1
rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ
[since the Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom]
in personal names
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  
r
a		 C1
r
a		 N6
C2
ra
r
a
rw
a		 ra
Z1
r
W10 N6
rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rwꜥ rꜥ
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [since the New Kingdom] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms edit

Proper noun edit

r
a		 ra

 m

  1. the god Ra (literally “Sun”) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. epithet for the king [since the Middle Kingdom]
  3. (only in the plural) one of a number of minor ‘Ra-gods’ or sun gods [since the New Kingdom]

Inflection edit

Declension of rꜥ (masculine u-stem)
singular rꜥ
dual rꜥwj
plural rꜥw

Alternative forms edit

See under the noun above.

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

See also edit

References edit

  • “rꜥw (lemma ID 93290)”, 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
  • “Rꜥw (lemma ID 400015)”, 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
  • “Rꜥw (lemma ID 853477)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[3], 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
  • “Rꜥw.w (lemma ID 860277)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[4], 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[5], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 401.5–401.10
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 147
  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
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