nꜥr-mr

Egyptian

Etymology

nꜥr (“catfish”) +‎ mr (“to be painful, stinging, harsh, fierce”), thus literally ‘The Painful/Stinging/Harsh/Fierce Catfish’.

The name nꜥr-mr inside a serekh, as it appears on the Narmer Palette.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɑːr mɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: nar-mer

Proper noun

 m

1. A serekh name notably borne by Narmer, the first pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt, considered the founder of a unified Egypt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nꜥr-mr  

nꜥr

abbreviation

References

• Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 5, page 7
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 22
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, page 170