rmn

Egyptian

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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mn
n
D41

 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.

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Noun

D41

 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

Noun

D41

 m

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

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Noun

r
mn
n
D41
D40

 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

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Derived terms

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

References

  • “rmn (lemma ID 854523)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “rmn (lemma ID 94290)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “rmn (lemma ID 94280)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “rmn (lemma ID 94300)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “rmn (lemma ID 94310)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, 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.
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