rmn

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛmɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: remen

 m

1. shoulder, arm
   1. (often in the dual) shoulder, upper arm
   2. (often in the dual) arm of a person in general, especially when in reference to moving it into a particular configuration

      Synonym: ꜥ

   3. (in the dual) arms of a balance scale
2. side, half
   1. side of a place, person, mountain, etc.

      Synonym: gs

   2. one side or half of a body of water
   3. row of rowers along one side of a boat, one side of a rowing crew
   4. side of beef
   5. (in the dual) side rails (uprights) of a ladder

Often used in parallel to ꜥ (“hand, arm”) with both in the dual, thus rmnwj ꜥwj (“arms and hands”). In other contexts the two terms may be synonyms.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn
					abbreviation	abbreviation

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn
		abbreviation	abbreviation

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn
in the sense ‘half of a body of water’	in the sense ‘row of (female) rowers’	in the sense ‘side of beef’			abbreviation	abbreviation

 m

1. a measure of length equivalent to 20 ḏbꜥw (“digits”), 5 šzpw (“palms”), or ⁵⁄₇ of a mḥ (“cubit”) (about 37.6 centimetres)
2. a measure of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂ of a ḫt (“rod”) or 50 mḥw (“cubits”) (about 26.25 metres)

 m

1. a measure of area equivalent to ¹⁄₂ of a sṯꜣt (“aroura”) or 50 mḥw-tꜣ (“centarouras”) (about 0.14 hectares)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn

 m

1. (usually in the plural) bearer, carrier, supporter (usually a priest), especially of a sacred object such as a cultic image or chapel
2. (in the plural) the supports imagined to hold up the sky
3. (in the plural) pillars, columns

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmn  

rmn	rmn	rmn	rmn	rmnw	rmn	rmn
			abbreviation		in the sense ‘pillar’	abbreviation

• “rmn (lemma ID 854523)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94290)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94280)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94300)”, and “rmn (lemma ID 94310)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 418.1–419.3, 419.19–420.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 149
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 125, 389.