sḏr

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛd͡ʒɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: sedjer

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to lie down
   • c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — gable of the west wall of the burial chamber, line 4–5, spell 226.3:^[1]

     tꜣ j.ꜥm n.k prt jm.k hjw sḏr zbn

     Earth, swallow up into yourself what has emerged from you! Hiu-serpent, lie down, crawl away!

   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 41–45:

     
     

     jr.n.j ḫmtw hrw wꜥ.kw jb.j m snnw.j sḏr.kw m ẖnw n(j) kꜣp n(j) ḫt qnj.n.j šwyt

     I spent three days alone, my heart my only companion (literally, “my second”), lying inside a shelter of wood, having embraced the shadows.

2. (intransitive) to go to bed for the night, to go to sleep
   • c. 1944 BCE, (year 17 of the reign of Senusret I), Stela of Mentuwoser (MMA 12.184), lines 11–12:

     nj sḏr z ḥqr.w r dmj.j

     No one went to bed hungry in my district.

3. (intransitive) to spend the night

This verb is often used with a following adverb clause introduced by a stative without a preceding subject; the subject of this stative is then ordinarily identical with the subject of sḏr.

 m

1. sleeper

• James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 216, 219, 360.