mry-rꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

From mry (perfective relative form of mrj) +‎ rꜥ (“Ra”), literally ‘(one) whom Ra loves’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛriː rɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: mery-ra

Proper noun

 m

1. A throne name notably borne by Pepi I Meryre, a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty
2. a male given name, Meryre, Merire, or Meryra

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mry-rꜥ  

mry-rꜥ	mry-rꜥ
	[Abydos King List]

References

• “Mr.y-Rꜥw (lemma ID 400309)”, 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
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 42
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 56–57, 184
• Sethe, Kurt (1908) Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte nach den Papierabdrücken und Photographien des Berliner Museums, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, volume 1, page XII
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 364.