ꜥꜣm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

T14m

 m

  1. 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
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      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.
  2. Syrian slave
  3. 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.

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: ꜥꜣm
    • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲏ (amē)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉ (ame)

Noun

T14m
T15qA

 m

  1. throwing stick, boomerang [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

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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