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Translingual
Symbol
tr
- (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Turkish.
- (music) trill
- (mathematics) The symbol for the trace function on square matrices.
English
Noun
tr
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of table row.
Adjective
tr (not comparable)
- (grammar) Abbreviation of transitive.
Synonyms
See also
Anagrams
Avokaya
Pronunciation
Letter
tr (uppercase Tr)
- A letter of the Avokaya alphabet.
Egyptian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
m
- point or span of time, particular time (+ genitive: time of (a season, a part of the day, a date, a festival, an event, etc.))
- duration of time (+ genitive: lasting, consisting of (some measure))
- proper time for something
c. 1900 BCE,
The Instructions of Kagemni (
pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.6–1.7:
- ẖz pw ḥnt n ẖt.f swꜣ tr smḫ.n.f wstn ẖt m pr.sn
- He who is greedy for the sake of his belly when the proper time passes, having forgotten those in whose house his belly roams free, is a wretch.[1]
- time when something will reach fulfilment, particularly of the end of pregnancy or death
- season, time of year
- time when someone is alive, lifetime (of people, gods, ancestors)
- (in the dual) day and night
- (in the plural) divisions of time
Usage notes
Since the New Kingdom, the dual of this word starts to occasionally be used for the singular or plural.
Inflection
Declension of tr (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tr
Descendants
Etymology 2
Particle
enclitic
- Interrogative particle; indicates that the phrase is a question
- really?, actually?
- (rare) Used to emphasize a preceding adjective with the admirative suffix -wj
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tr
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Verb
2-lit.
- Alternative form of twr (“to respect”)
References
- “tr (lemma ID 172700)” and “tr (lemma ID 172720)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 313.12–316.11, 316–317.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 300
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 56, 103, 107, 216, 281.
- ^ The latter part of this sentence is ambiguous and can be interpreted in numerous ways. Both swꜣ tr (“(when) the proper time passes”) and smḫ.n.f wstn ẖt m pr.sn (“he has forgotten/having forgotten…, etc.”) may be taken either as adverbial clauses (as rendered here) or main clauses. Furthermore, if wstn is taken as a participle rather than a relative form, the phrase it introduces could mean ‘he whose belly roams free at home’ rather than ‘those in whose house his belly roams free’; in this case the preceding perfect verb form smḫ.n demands a different interpretation. One possible solution is to read it with a counterfactual meaning ‘would that he forgot…’ instead of ‘he has forgotten…’; this is substantially the tack taken in Simpson 2003, The Literature of Ancient Egypt. Such counterfactual uses of the bare perfect are, however, rare. Another solution is that taken in Allen 2015, Middle Egyptian Literature, who reinterprets smḫ.n.f as smḫ nf (“those forget…”), taking nf as a pronoun referring to the “multitude” mentioned several sentences prior. This proposed antecedent is, however, far enough removed as to make such an interpretation doubtful.
Maore Comorian
Pronunciation
Letter
tr (upper case Tr)
- A letter of the Maore Comorian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Mapudungun
Pronunciation
Letter
tr (uppercase Tr)
- A letter of the Mapuche alphabet.
Romanian
Interjection
tr
- Obsolete form of ptru.
References
- tr in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From troigh.
Noun
tr
- ft (foot/feet)