rꜥ-ḏd.f

Egyptian

Etymology

From rꜥ (“Ra”) +‎ ḏd (“stability, lastingness”) +‎ .f (“his”), thus ‘Ra is his lastingness’. Possibly, if the name is written with honorific transposition, it could also be ḏd (“endures”) +‎ .f (“he”) +‎ rꜥ (“Ra”), thus ‘He endures, (namely) Ra’; however, both the Greek rendering of the name and the meaning support the former interpretation.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɑː d͡ʒɛdʔɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: ra-djed.ef

Proper noun

 m

1. A throne name notably borne by Djedefre, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ-ḏd.f  

rꜥ-ḏd.f

References

• “Ḏd⸗f-rꜥw (lemma ID 450220)”, 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 36
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52, 179