ꜥꜣm
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑːʔɑm/
- Conventional anglicization: aam
Noun
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- A member of one of the foreign Asian peoples living north and east of the Egyptian borders; Asian, Semite [since the Old Kingdom]
- c. 1555 BCE, Second Stela of Kamose
- wh{m} jb.k jr.f ꜥꜣm ẖz m.k swrj.j m jrp n(j) kꜣmw.k m ꜥtḫ n.j ꜥꜣmw n(j) ḥꜣq.j
- May your heart fail, you wretched Asiatic! Look, I drink of the wine of your vineyard, which the Asiatics I have captured press for me.
- c. 1555 BCE, Second Stela of Kamose
- Syrian slave
- herdsman [since the 19th Dynasty]
Usage notes
This word is conventionally translated as Asiatic; it is often found in opposition to the word for foreigners south of Egypt, nḥsj.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: ꜥꜣm
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲏ (amē)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉ (ame)
Related terms
References
- “ꜥꜣm (lemma ID 35400)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 167.18–167.21
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 5–6
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