mrj

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

Verb

U7
r
A2

 3ae inf.

  1. (transitive, of family members, rulers and subjects, or people and gods) to love (someone), to have affection for, to be fond of
    • The Stela of Inhuretnakht, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities 1783:
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      t
      n&n&f zA
      f
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      f
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      b i
      jrt.n n.f zꜣ.f smsw.f mr(j).f dbj
      What his eldest beloved son Debi made for him.
  2. (transitive) to love (something abstract: truth, life, goodness, battle, etc.)
  3. (transitive) to be fond of, to love (something one possesses)
  4. (transitive) to want, to desire (something one does not possess)
  5. (transitive) to desire to be in (a place)
  6. (transitive, with infinitive) to want (to do something)
  7. (transitive, with sḏm.f) to want, to wish (that something be done)

Usage notes

The imperfective and perfective nominal forms of this word can be used after m at the start of a sentence to introduce a conditional or comparative noun clause.

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Descendants

  • Demotic: mr

References

  • mri̯ (lemma ID 72470)”, 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
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 98.12–101.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 111
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 374.