pr-dšr

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ dšr (“red”), thus ‘red house’; compare pr-ḥḏ (“treasury”, literally “house of silver, white house”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr dɛʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: per-desher

Proper noun

 m

1. treasury of Lower Egypt [early Old Kingdom]

References

• “pr-dšr (lemma ID 450466)”, 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 518.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90