jmn-ꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmn (“hidden”) +‎ ꜥ (“arm”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally “hidden of arm”, i.e. “(the one) with the hidden arm”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn ɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen-a

Noun

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1. a priestly title for a priest of Bastet [Late Period]

Inflection

Declension of jmn-ꜥ (masculine)

singular	jmn-ꜥ
dual	jmnwj-ꜥ
plural	jmnw-ꜥ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmn-ꜥ  

jmn-ꜥ

References

• “jmn-ꜥ (lemma ID 26240)”, 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 83.23