ḏd

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: djed

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to say, to speak (words, names, praises, reports, speech, etc., including direct quotes) (+ n or (archaic) ḫft: to; + ḥr: to (someone of high standing); + r: against, about, to (someone); + n: for the sake of (someone); + m: with, from (the mouth))
   • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:

     ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw

     May “welcome in peace” be said to him by the great of Abydos.

   • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) line 23:

     ḏd.n.j dpt mwt nn

     I said “this is the taste of death.”

   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.4–2.5:

     
     

     ḏr.n ḏd.n.f n.sn jr ntt nbt m zẖꜣ ḥr pꜣ šfdw sḏm st mj ḏd.j st (j)m zn ḥꜣw ḥr šꜣꜣt

     In the end he said to them: As for everything in the writing on this scroll, heed it as I say it; don’t exceed what has been set down.

2. (intransitive) to talk, to speak (+ n: to)
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 20–21:

     jr r.k m ḫrt-jb.k swrd pw ḏd n.k

     Well, do whatever you want (literally, “as your desire”). It’s tiring to talk to you.

3. (transitive) to speak (good, evil, truth, falsehood, etc.)
4. (transitive) to narrate, to tell, to report (events or experiences)
5. (transitive) to tell about (a person or thing) (+ n: to)
6. (transitive) to say in writing
7. (transitive) to recite (a spell or other text) (+ ḥr: over (an amulet, etc.))
8. (transitive) to intone, to sing (a song) aloud
9. (transitive) to give away, to tell (a secret)
10. (transitive, law, of witnesses and the accused) to testify
11. (transitive) to give or report (someone’s) name (+ n: to (someone else))
12. (transitive) to call (+ n or r: (someone)) by (a name), to refer to as
13. (transitive) to sing the praises of (something, someone’s power, etc.), to mention with praise
14. (transitive) to predict, to prophesy
15. (transitive, of people or hearts/minds, with sentence as object) to think to, to intend to (do something)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏd  

ḏ	ḏd	ḏd	ḏd
	occasionally; as if ḏd-mdw	playful spelling	playful spelling

• Akhmimic Coptic: ϫⲟⲩ (čou)
• Bohairic Coptic: ϫⲱ (čō)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ϫⲱ (čō)
• Lycopolitan Coptic: ϫⲱ (čō), ϫⲟⲩ (čou), ϫⲟⲟⲩⲉ (čooue)
• Old Coptic: ϫⲱ (čō)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϫⲱ (čō)

 m

1. infinitive of ḏd: speech, speaking
2. infinitive of ḏd: manner of speech, language

See under the verb above.

See under the verb above.

1. (Late Egyptian) Alternative form of r ḏd (introduces a direct quotation or object clause)

• Coptic: ϫⲉ- (če-)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: djed

 m

1. stability, lastingness
2. djed pillar
3. epithet of the gods Ptah (in earlier writings) and Osiris (later)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏd  

ḏd	ḏd	ḏd	ḏd
	sporadically in later writings

• Old Coptic: ⲧⲁⲧ (tat)

• “ḏd (lemma ID 185810)”, “ḏd (lemma ID 856629)”, “ḏd (lemma ID 400140)”, “ḏd (lemma ID 185830)”, and “Ḏd (lemma ID 185890)”, 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 618.9–625.2, 626.11–627.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 325
• James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 233.
• Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, pages 222, 323