rmn

Egyptian

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Cardinal: snwj     Ordinal: snnw     Adverbial: zpwj snwj     Distributive: snwj snwj     Fractional: gs, rmn

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛmɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: remen

Noun

 m

1. shoulder, arm
   1. (often in the dual) shoulder, upper arm [since the Pyramid Texts]
   2. (often in the dual) arm of a person in general, especially when in reference to moving it into a particular configuration

      Synonym: ꜥ

   3. (in the dual) arms of a balance scale
2. side, half
   1. side of a place, person, mountain, etc.

      Synonym: gs

   2. one side or half of a body of water [Papyrus Westcar]
   3. row of rowers along one side of a boat, one side of a rowing crew [Papyrus Westcar]
   4. side of beef [Papyrus Westcar]
   5. (in the dual) side rails (uprights) of a ladder

Usage notes

Often used in parallel to ꜥ (“hand, arm”) with both in the dual, thus rmnwj ꜥwj (“arms and hands”). In other contexts the two terms may be synonyms.

Inflection

Declension of rmn (masculine)

singular	rmn
dual	rmnwj
plural	rmnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn
[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]
					abbreviation	abbreviation

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn
[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]
		abbreviation	abbreviation

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn
[Second Intermediate Period]	[Second Intermediate Period]	[Second Intermediate Period]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]
in the sense ‘half of a body of water’	in the sense ‘row of (female) rowers’	in the sense ‘side of beef’			abbreviation	abbreviation

Derived terms

• tp rmn

 

Noun

 m

1. a measure of length equivalent to 20 ḏbꜥw (“digits”), 5 šzpw (“palms”), or ⁵⁄₇ of a mḥ (“cubit”) (about 37.6 centimetres)
2. a measure of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂ of a ḫt (“rod”) or 50 mḥw (“cubits”) (about 26.25 metres)

Inflection

Declension of rmn (masculine)

singular	rmn
dual	rmnwj
plural	rmnw

Noun

 m

1. a measure of area equivalent to ¹⁄₂ of a sṯꜣt (“aroura”) or 50 mḥw-tꜣ (“centarouras”) (about 0.14 hectares)

Inflection

Declension of rmn (masculine)

singular	rmn
dual	rmnwj
plural	rmnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn
	[Old Kingdom]

Noun

 m

1. (usually in the plural) bearer, carrier, supporter (usually a priest), especially of a sacred object such as a cultic image or chapel [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (in the plural) the supports imagined to hold up the sky [Book of the Dead]
3. (in the plural) pillars, columns [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of rmn (masculine)

singular	rmn
dual	rmnwj
plural	rmnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmnw	rmn	rmn
[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Theban royal tombs]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
			abbreviation		in the sense ‘pillar’	abbreviation

Derived terms

• rmnw-nṯr
• rmn-pt
• rmn-ḥr
• rmn-ẖr
• rmn-sꜣḥ

 

Related terms

• rmnj

 

References

• “rmn (lemma ID 854523)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94290)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94280)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94300)”, and “rmn (lemma ID 94310)”, 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 418.1–419.3, 419.19–420.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 149
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 125, 389.