sꜣḥ-wj-rꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

Leprohon interprets the name as sꜣḥ (“to endow”) +‎ wj (“me”) +‎ rꜥ (“Ra”), thus ‘Ra has endowed me’; others have interpreted the first part as a single passive participle, with a reading along the lines of sꜣḥw (“arrived at, reached”) +‎ rꜥ (“Ra”), thus ‘(he who is) reached by Ra’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɑh wi rɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: sah-wi-ra

Proper noun

m

A given name of historical usage, notably borne by Sahure, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty

References

“Sꜣḥ.w-Rꜥw (lemma ID 400280)”, 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 38
von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 54, 181