ꜣrr

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare ꜣr (“to drive off, to harry”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑrɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: arer

Noun

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1. (Late Egyptian, hapax legomenon) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. frustration
      • c. 21st–23rd Dynasty, 1077–720 BCE, Oracular Amuletic Decree L1 (pBM EA 10083), recto, lines x+23 to x+28:

        jw.{t}n (r) šd.st r mwt nb r mr nb r ḫnw nb r btꜣw nb r tḫtḫ nb r ꜣrr nb r mdwt nb bjn r mdwt nb dḥrjw r mdwt nb snnw r mdwt pwjꜣṯꜣ

        We will rescue her from every death, from every sickness, from every abomination, from every ill deed, from every confusion, from every frustration, from every evil word, from every bitter word, from every second(-rate) word, and from mocking words.

Descendants

• >? Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲗⲱⲗ (alōl)

References

• “ꜣrr (lemma ID 164)” and “ꜣrr (lemma ID 10460)”, 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
• Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 6
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 5
• Westendorf, Wolfhart (1965–1977) Koptisches Handwörterbuch, first edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, page 4