jmꜣḫw
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Egyptian
Etymology
From jmꜣḫ (“to be honored, revered”) + -w.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /imɑxuː/
- Conventional anglicization: imakhu
Noun
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- an epithet for the dead or, sometimes, the aged: revered one, venerable one (+ ḫr or genitive: one honored by (someone); + m: one honored in (a place))
- Synonym: nb-jmꜣḫ
― jmꜣḫ(w) mꜣꜥ ― true revered one
― jmꜣḫ(w) wꜥt(j) ― sole revered one
Usage notes
Useed either independently, or before or after the person in question’s name like a title.
Inflection
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣḫw
Derived terms
References
- “jmꜣḫ.w (lemma ID 25090)” and “jmꜣḫ.w (lemma ID 885509)”, 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
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 82.1–82.12
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 20
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 278, 367.