prj

Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic *par-/*pir- (“to go out”).^[1]

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛri/
  • Conventional anglicization: peri

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to emerge, to come out, to come forth, to go forth (+ m: from; + r: to, into (a place), against (someone); + n: to (someone); + ḥr: through (a door))
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 18–19:

     pr.n.f mḏḥ.w m wḏ n(j) gbb šzp.n.f ḥqꜣt jdbwj wrrt mn.tj m tp.f

     He came forth wreathed at the command of Geb, having received the rulership of the Two Riverbanks (Egypt), the White Crown fixed upon his head.

2. (intransitive, of besieged people) to come out, to surrender
3. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, of land) to emerge or reappear after a flood, to no longer be flooded
4. (intransitive) to escape (+ m or ẖr: from (fire, custody, danger in war, etc.))
5. (intransitive) to ascend, to go up (+ r: to (a place); + tp or r tp: onto; + ḫr or n: to (someone); + r, m, or ḥr: up (a stairway))
   • c. 2289 BCE – 2255 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Pepi I — west wall of the antechamber, line 22–23, spell 474.4–474.5:^[2]

     
     

     pr.f r.f jr pt mm sbꜣw mm j.ḫmw-skj ꜣt ppy tp.f šꜥt.f r gswj.f ḥkꜣw.f jr rd

     So he goes forth to the sky among the stars, among the circumpolar stars, with Pepi’s striking-power atop him, his viciousness at his sides, and his magic at his feet.

6. (intransitive, of celestial bodies, gods, kings, and the dead) to appear, to emerge, to manifest (+ m: from, out of)
7. (intransitive, of fire, voices, wind, storms, etc.) to break out, to burst forth, to emerge
8. (intransitive) to be divinely created, to emerge (+ m: by, from (a god), from (a body part of a god))
9. (intransitive) to be born (+ m: from (a person, a god, a belly, an egg, etc.))
10. (intransitive, of goods, with m) to originate in (a place), to have one’s source or origin in
11. (intransitive, of goods and offerings) to be produced, supplied, provided (+ m: by, from (a place); + n: to (someone))
12. (intransitive, of people and names) to become well known, renowned, to come to stand out
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.12–2.1:

      jmj pr rn.k jw gr.k m r(ꜣ).k njs.t(w).k

      Let your reputation emerge, even as you stay quiet with your mouth when you are summoned.

13. (intransitive, mathematics) to be subtracted

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of prj  

prj	prj	prj	prj	prj	prj	prj
				abbreviation

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲫⲓⲣⲓ (phiri)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲓⲣⲉ (peire)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛri/
  • Conventional anglicization: peri

 m

1. battlefield

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of prj  

prj	ptrj	ptr

• “pri̯ (lemma ID 60920)” and “prj (lemma ID 60990)”, 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 518–525.6, 532.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 90–91
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 145.