ḏd-kꜣ-rꜥ
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Egyptian
Etymology
ḏd (“enduring, lasting”) + kꜣ (“life-force”) + rꜥ (“Ra”) in two direct genitive constructions, thus ‘the enduring (one) of the life-force of Ra’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛd kɑ rɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: djed-ka-ra
Proper noun
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- A throne name notably borne by Djedkare Isesi, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty
References
- “Ḏd-kꜣ-Rꜥw (lemma ID 400288)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 40
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 55, 183