ysrjꜣr

Egyptian

Etymology

If the term means Israel, as is considered most likely, then borrowed from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrāʾēl). (However, alternative readings have sometimes been proposed, such as Jezreel.)

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iːsriɑr/

Proper noun

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1. a demonym or placename; probably Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, approximately coincident with the modern State of Israel)
   • c. 1208 B.C.E., Merneptah Stele, Line 27:

     ysrjꜣr fkt bn prt.f

     Israel is laid waste, and he has no seed.

References

• “Yzrꜣr (lemma ID 859140)”, 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