jnm

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /jaˈnam/ → /jaˈnam/ → /ʔaˈnam/ → /ʔaˈnam/

Noun
iin
n		 nmmD3

 m

  1. skin of a human or animal
  2. hide, pelt, removed skin of an animal
  3. leather
  4. color of skin
  5. hues, colors (of the sky, cloth, etc.)
  6. (figurative) exterior, appearance, form

Usage notes

In late writings this word becomes confused with jwn (“color”) and is sometimes written identically.

Inflection
Declension of jnm (masculine)
singular jnm
dual jnmwj
plural jnmw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jnm  
iin
n		 nmmF27
innmZ1F27
iin
n		 nmm
F125
iin
n		 mmD3
Z2
iwn
Aa56
D3
jnm jnm jnm jnmm jwnm
[Old Kingdom] [18th Dynasty] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants
  • Demotic: ꜣnm
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲛⲟⲙ (anom)

References
  • “jnm (lemma ID 27420)”, 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 96.14–96.20
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 23
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 126.
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