twr

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tuːr/
  • Conventional anglicization: tur

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to show respect to (people or statues of the dead), to treat reverently
2. (intransitive) to act respectful, to show respect (+ ḥr: to)
3. (transitive) to worship, to honor (a god)
4. (transitive, of a priest or son of the dead) to honor (the dead)
5. (transitive, of the king) to honor, to magnify, to bestow honors on (one’s officials)
6. (transitive) to hail, to greet respectfully
   • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 10–11:

     ḫp.n.j z ꜥḥꜥ(.w) m r(ꜣ)-wꜣt t(w)r.n.f wj snḏ(.j) n.f

     I crossed a man standing on the road and he saluted me, but I feared him.

7. (intransitive, with r) to keep one’s distance from or respect (someone’s possessions), to not violate (someone’s property)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of twr  

tr	trj	trj	twr	twrj

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of twr  

tr	tr	ṯr	tjwr
			only attested in the Instruction of Amenemope

By the Middle Kingdom, the r in this word is often supplemented or replaced by j, reflecting the phonetic weakening or loss of r at the end of a syllable; further, the middle consonant w becomes commonly omitted.

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to turn away, to reject (someone unwanted as a companion, something unwanted to drink, etc.)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of twr  

twr	twr	twr	twr	twr	twr	twr	ṯwr	twrj	trj

By the New Kingdom, the r in this word is often supplemented or replaced by j, reflecting the phonetic weakening or loss of r at the end of a syllable; further, the middle consonant w becomes occasionally omitted.

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to make (something sacred) ritually clean with water, natron, or incense; to cleanse, to purify (+ r: of (evil, pollution, etc.))
2. (intransitive) to be(come) ritually pure or clean
3. (intransitive, of the sky) to be(come) clear (+ r: of (clouds))

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of twr  

twrj	twrj	ṯwrj	tjwr	dwr	dwr	dwr

By the New Kingdom, the r in this word is often supplemented or replaced by j, reflecting the phonetic weakening or loss of r at the end of a syllable. The middle consonant w is generally not omitted.

 m

1. ritual purity or cleanliness

 m

1. cleaner-priest
2. epithet of the king or the god Horus

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of twr  

dwr

 m

1. a kind of plant, possibly a kind of reed, used medicinally and said to be given to the dead in the afterworld

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of twr  

twrj	trj	twrj
		in hieratic

By the Middle Kingdom, the r in this word is often supplemented or replaced by j, reflecting the phonetic weakening or loss of r at the end of a syllable; further, the middle consonant w becomes commonly omitted.

 m

1. a body of water in the afterworld

• “twr (lemma ID 854576)”, “twr (lemma ID 170380)”, “twr (lemma ID 170390)”, “twr (lemma ID 170320)”, and “twr (lemma ID 170400)”, 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 252.3–252.5, 252.10–255.4, 318.1–318.8, 318.12–318.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 295, 300

From Middle Welsh twrr, from Proto-Brythonic *turr (Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr), from Latin turris (“tower”) (compare Old English torr (“a high rock, tower”)). Doublet of tŵr.

More at English tor and w:Tor (rock formation) § Etymology. Also compare Latin Taurini.

• IPA^(key): /tʊr/
• Rhymes: -ʊr

twr m (plural tyrrau)

1. crowd, group
2. heap, pile

• tyrru

• A Book of Dartmoor (1900), p. 15
• Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 1912 Edition, 1965 Reprint (David & Charles, Newton Abbot)