rꜥ-ḏd.f

Egyptian

Etymology

rꜥ (Ra) + ḏd (stability, lastingness) + .f (his), thus ‘Ra is his lastingness’. Possibly, if the name is written with honorific transposition, it could also be ḏd (endures) + .f (he) + rꜥ (Ra), thus ‘He endures, (namely) Ra’; however, both the Greek rendering of the name and the meaning support the former interpretation.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

raDdf

 m

  1. A throne name notably borne by Djedefre, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty

Alternative forms

References

  • Ḏd⸗f-rꜥw (lemma ID 450220)”, 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
  • Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 36
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52, 179
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