rꜥ

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾeːʕ/

Noun

⁠ m

1. sun
2. (prefixed with pꜣ) the god Ra

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲣⲏ (rē)
  • → English: Re

References

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 242

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈɾiːʕuw/ → /ˈɾiːʕuw/ → /ˈɾeːʕə/ → /ɾeːʕ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾiːʕuw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾiːʕuw/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾeːʕə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ɾeːʕ/

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

Noun

 m

1. sun [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (in fixed expressions) day (period of daylight) [since the Old Kingdom]
3. (rare) sun of one particular day [Middle Kingdom literature]

Inflection

Declension of rꜥ (masculine u-stem)

singular	rꜥ
dual	rꜥwj
plural	rꜥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  

rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ
	[since the Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]
		in personal names

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  

rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rwꜥ	rꜥ
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[since the New Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• rꜥ nb

 

Proper noun

 m

1. the god Ra (literally “Sun”) [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. epithet for the king [since the Middle Kingdom]
3. (only in the plural) one of a number of minor ‘Ra-gods’ or sun gods [since the New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of rꜥ (masculine u-stem)

singular	rꜥ
dual	rꜥwj
plural	rꜥw

Alternative forms

See under the noun above.

Derived terms

• jb-n-rꜥ
• jmn-rꜥ
• jrt-rꜥ
• wꜣḥ-nsyt-mj-rꜥ-m-pt
• wsr-kꜣ-rꜥ
• pwj-m-rꜥ
• mꜣꜣt-ḥr-nfrw-rꜥ
• mn-pḥtj-rꜥ
• mn-ḫpr-rꜥ
• mn-kꜣw-rꜥ
• mr.n-rꜥ
• mry-rꜥ
• mryt-rꜥ
• mswt-rꜥ
• n-wsr-rꜥ
• nbw-kꜣw-rꜥ
• nb-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ
• nfr.f-rꜥ
• nfr-jr-kꜣ-rꜥ
• nfrw-rꜥ
• nfr-nfrw-rꜥ
• nfr-kꜣ-rꜥ
• nṯrj-kꜣ-rꜥ
• rꜥ-ms
• rꜥ-ms-sw
• rꜥ-ḥr-ꜣḫtj
• rꜥ-ḥtp
• rꜥ-ḏd.f
• ḥr-m-ꜣḫt-ḫprj-rꜥ-tm
• ḫꜥ.f-rꜥ
• ḫpr-kꜣ-rꜥ
• zꜣ-rꜥ
• sꜣḥ-wj-rꜥ
• sḫm-n-rꜥ
• st-jb-rꜥ
• stp.n-rꜥ
• špss-kꜣ-rꜥ
• ḏsr-kꜣ-rꜥ
• ḏd-kꜣ-rꜥ

 

Descendants

• Demotic: ⁠ (rꜥ)
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲣⲓ (ri), ⲣⲉⲓ (rei)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲣⲏ (rē)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲣⲉ (re)
  • Old Coptic: ⲣⲏ (rē), ⲣⲉ (re)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲣⲏ (rē)
    • → English: Re
• → English: Ra

See also

• 𓁚, 𓁛

References

• “rꜥw (lemma ID 93290)”, “Rꜥw (lemma ID 400015)”, “Rꜥw (lemma ID 853477)”, and “Rꜥw.w (lemma ID 860277)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 401.5–401.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 147