ḏsr

See also: dsr, DSR, dSr, and dšr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛsɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: djeser

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) sacred
2. (transitive) to clear or keep clear (a road, a path) (+ n: for (someone))
3. (transitive) to sunder, to separate, to isolate or segregate away (+ r: from)
4. (intransitive) to be(come) separated from
5. (transitive) to sanctify, to make sacred [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḏsr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḏsr, geminated stem: ḏsrr

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḏsr ḏsrw, ḏsr ḏsrt ḏsr ḏsr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḏsr ḥr ḏsr m ḏsr r ḏsr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḏsr.n ḏsrw, ḏsr consecutive ḏsr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḏsrt perfective3 ḏsr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḏsr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḏsr active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḏsr ḏsrr potentialis1 ḏsr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḏsr active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḏsr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḏsr active + .tj1, .tw2 ḏsr ḏsr, ḏsrw5, ḏsry5 imperfective ḏsr, ḏsry, ḏsrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḏsr, ḏsrj6, ḏsry6 ḏsr, ḏsrw5 prospective ḏsr, ḏsrtj7 — ḏsrtj4, ḏsrt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏsr  

ḏsr

Derived terms

• bw ḏsr
• sḫm-pḥtj-ḏsr-ḫꜥw
• tꜣ-ḏsr
• ḏsr-kꜣ-rꜥ

Proper noun

 m

1. a throne name notably borne by Djoser, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏsr  

ḏsr	ḏsr-it	ḏsr-sꜣ
[Ptolemaic Period]
from the famine stela on Sehel Island	Turin King List, damaged	Abydos King List, damaged

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volumes 609.11–614.14, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 324
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 365.
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 32
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 50, 176
• Gardiner, Alan (1959) The Royal Canon of Turin, III:5