Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
jmt-pr. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
jmt-pr, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
jmt-pr in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
jmt-pr you have here. The definition of the word
jmt-pr will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
jmt-pr, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Egyptian
Etymology
A nominalized nisba adjective in a reverse nisba construction, jmt (“being in”) + pr (“house, estate”), literally ‘what the estate is in’.
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- inventory of a house’s or estate’s property and goods
- such property itself
- specifically, such property as a bequeathed legacy or estate; bequest
- ― šzp jmt-pr ― to receive a bequest (+ m-ꜥ: from)
- ― rḏj (m) jmt-pr ― to bequeath property as a bequest (+ n: to (someone))
- will, last will and testament (document)
- ― jrj jmt-pr ― to make a will (+ n: in (someone)’s favor; + m: about)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jmj, pr.
Inflection
Declension of jmt-pr (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmt-pr
Derived terms
References
- “jm.jt-pr (lemma ID 854489)”, 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 73.20–74.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 18, 89
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 92, 292.