jmn-rꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmn (“Amun”) +‎ rꜥ (“sun, Ra”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jaˈmaːnuw ˈɾiːʕuw/ → /ʔaˈmaːnə ˈɾeːʕə/ → /ʔaˈmoːn ˈɾeːʕ/

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaˈmaːnuw ˈɾiːʕuw/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmaːnə ˈɾeːʕə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmoːn ˈɾeːʕ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn rɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen-ra

Proper noun

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1. the god Amun-Ra [since the 18th Dynasty]
   • c. 1450 BCE, The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III, Part I (Cairo Museum 34010):

     ḏd-mdw jn jmn-rꜥ nb-nswt-tꜣwj

     A recitation by Amun-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmn-rꜥ  

jmn-rꜥ	jmn-rꜥ	jmn-rꜥ

References

• “Jmn-Rꜥw (lemma ID 500004)”, 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 85