rmn

Egyptian

**Egyptian numbers ^(edit)**
	𓏻 2	3 →
Cardinal: snwj Ordinal: snnw Adverbial: zpwj snwj Distributive: snwj snwj Fractional: gs, rmn

Pronunciation

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

Noun

m

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
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

[Pyramid Texts]

[Old Kingdom]

abbreviation

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn

rmn

[since the Middle Kingdom]

[Middle Kingdom]

[Middle Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]

abbreviation

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn

rmn

[Second Intermediate Period]

[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

Derived terms

tp rmn

Noun

m

a measure of length equivalent to 20 ḏbꜥw (“digits”), 5 šzpw (“palms”), or ⁵⁄₇ of a mḥ (“cubit”) (about 37.6 centimetres)
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

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

[Old Kingdom]

Noun

m

(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]
(in the plural) the supports imagined to hold up the sky [Book of the Dead]
(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

rmnw

rmn

[Old Kingdom]

[since the Middle Kingdom]

[Theban royal tombs]

[Greco-Roman Period]

abbreviation

in the sense ‘pillar’

abbreviation

Derived terms

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.