nꜥr-mr

Egyptian

Etymology

From nꜥr (“catfish”) +‎ mr (“to be painful, stinging, fierce”), literally “The Painful/Stinging/Fierce Catfish”.

The name nꜥr-mr inside a serekh, as it appears on the Narmer Palette.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɑːr mɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: nar-mer

Proper noun

 m

1. A serekh name notably borne by Narmer, the first pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt, considered the founder of a unified Egypt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nꜥr-mr  

nꜥr

abbreviation

References

• “Nꜥr-mr (lemma ID 882299)”, 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 22
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, page 170
• Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 5, page 7