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m
- shoulder, arm
- (often in the dual) shoulder, upper arm [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (often in the dual) arm of a person in general, especially when in reference to moving it into a particular configuration
- Synonym: ꜥ
- (in the dual) arms of a balance scale
- side, half
- side of a place, person, mountain, etc.
- Synonym: gs
- one side or half of a body of water [Papyrus Westcar]
- row of rowers along one side of a boat, one side of a rowing crew [Papyrus Westcar]
- side of beef [Papyrus Westcar]
- (in the dual) side rails (uprights) of a ladder
Usage notes
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Often used in parallel to ꜥ (“hand, arm”) with both in the dual, thus rmnwj ꜥwj (“arms and hands”). In other contexts the two terms may be synonyms.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn
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in the sense ‘half of a body of water’
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in the sense ‘row of (female) rowers’
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in the sense ‘side of beef’
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m
- a measure of length equivalent to 20 ḏbꜥw (“digits”), 5 šzpw (“palms”), or 5⁄7 of a mḥ (“cubit”) (about 37.6 centimetres)
- a measure of length equivalent to 1⁄2 of a ḫt (“rod”) or 50 mḥw (“cubits”) (about 26.25 metres)
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Declension of rmn (masculine)
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- a measure of area equivalent to 1⁄2 of a sṯꜣt (“aroura”) or 50 mḥw-tꜣ (“centarouras”) (about 0.14 hectares)
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- (usually in the plural) bearer, carrier, supporter (usually a priest), especially of a sacred object such as a cultic image or chapel [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (in the plural) the supports imagined to hold up the sky [Book of the Dead]
- (in the plural) pillars, columns [Greco-Roman Period]
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in the sense ‘pillar’
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References
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- “rmn (lemma ID 854523)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
- “rmn (lemma ID 94290)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
- “rmn (lemma ID 94280)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[3], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
- “rmn (lemma ID 94300)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[4], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
- “rmn (lemma ID 94310)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[5], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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[6], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 418.1–419.3, 419.19–420.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 149
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 125, 389.