jmn

Compare Arabic ء م ن (ʔ m n) and Hebrew א־מ־ן (ʾ-m-n).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen

 3-lit.

1. (transitive or reflexive) to hide, to conceal, to make secret (+ r: from (someone); + m: in (something))
2. (intransitive) to hide, to be(come) hidden or secret
3. (intransitive, by extension) to be(come) rare or precious
4. (transitive) to create, form, shape (in a cosmic, divine sense)

Often used with a following noun to mean ‘one who/which hides…’, ‘one with a hidden…’.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmn  

jmn	jmn	jmn	jmn	jmn	jmn	jmjn
				abbreviation

• Demotic: jmn, ꜣmn

1. perfective active participle of jmn: hidden, secret, precious

See under the verb above.

See under the verb above.

 m

1. an epithet of various gods: hidden one, secret one

 m

1. a priestly title: hidden one, secret one

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Amun

Wikipedia

 m

1. Amun, a primeval god, personification of the hiddenness of the primeval waters, worshipped at Hermopolis as a member of the Ogdoad

   Coordinate terms: jmnt, nnw, nnwt, kkw, kkwt, ḥḥw, ḥḥwt

2. Amun, a god worshipped at Thebes as a member of the Theban Triad, and seen as the king of the gods

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmn  

jmn	jmn	jmn	jmnw	jmn	jmn	jmn

• Demotic: jmn
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ (amoun)
    • → English: Amun
    • → Ancient Greek: Ἀμοῦν (Amoûn)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἄμμων (Ámmōn)
    • → Coptic: ⲁⲙⲙⲱⲛ (ammōn)
• → Meroitic: 𐦠𐦨𐦩𐦢 (amni /⁠amani⁠/)
• → Middle Babylonian: (/⁠amâna⁠/), (/⁠amûnu⁠/)

 m

1. a minor god in the form of a snake worshipped at Prosopis and Thebes

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmn  

jmn	jmjnj

From Proto-Afroasiatic *yamin-. Cognate with Proto-Semitic *yamīn- (“right”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen

1. right (direction)

   Synonym: wnmj

2. western

This word was chiefly used in very old texts, and early on replaced by wnmj.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmn  

jmn	jmn	jmn	jmn

• jꜣbj
• jꜣbtj

 m

1. right side

   ― ḥr jmn ― to the right

   ― m jmn ― to the right

2. the West

   Synonyms: jmnt, jmntt

See under the adjective above.

From j- +‎ mn (“to be established, to remain”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen

 m

1. Only used in jrj jmn (“to make one’s abode, to sojourn”): abode, place of stay

• “jmn (lemma ID 26030)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26020)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26040)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26050)”, “Jmn (lemma ID 26060)”, “Jmn (lemma ID 26070)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26080)”, and “jmn (lemma ID 854325)”, 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 83.4–83.6, 83.12–84.7, 84.15–85.2, 85.11–85.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
• James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 186, 280.