jmn-rn

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmn (“hidden”) +‎ rn (“name”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘hidden of name’, i.e. ‘he whose name is hidden’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn rɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen-ren

Proper noun

 m

1. a minor god mentioned in old religious texts [Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts]

Usage notes

Distinct from jmn-rn.f, which is an epithet for other gods, particularly Amun.

References

• “Jmn-rn (lemma ID 26260)”, 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 84.1