sꜣḥ-wj-rꜥ
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Egyptian
Etymology
Leprohon interprets the name as sꜣḥ (“to endow”) + wj (“me”) + rꜥ (“Ra”), thus ‘Ra has endowed me’; others have interpreted the first part as a single passive participle, with a reading along the lines of sꜣḥw (“arrived at, reached”) + rꜥ (“Ra”), thus ‘(he who is) reached by Ra’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɑh wi rɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: sah-wi-ra
Proper noun
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- A given name of historical usage, notably borne by Sahure, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty
References
- “Sꜣḥ.w-Rꜥw (lemma ID 400280)”, 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
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 38
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 54, 181