rwḏ-jmn

Egyptian

Etymology

From rwḏ (“to be firm, to succeed”) +‎ jmn (“Amun”), thus ‘Amun is firm/Amun succeeds’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ruːd͡ʒ imɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: rudj-amen

Proper noun

 m

1. a male given name, Rudamun

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rwḏ-jmn  

rwd-jmn	rwḏ-jmn

References

• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 155
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 106, 266