zꜣ-pr

Egyptian

Etymology

zꜣ(w) (“guardian”) +‎ pr (“house”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘guardian of the house’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɑ pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: za-per

Noun

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1. watchman [Old and Middle Kingdoms]

Inflection

Declension of zꜣ-pr (masculine)

singular	zꜣ-pr
dual	zꜣwj-pr
plural	zꜣw-pr

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zꜣ-pr  

zꜣ-pr

References

• “zꜣ-pr (lemma ID 450515)” and “zꜣ-pr (lemma ID 855949)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515.4