pr-ḫnr

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ḫnr (“harem”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the harem’. Since the 19th Dynasty the second element is sometimes written and reanalyzed as ḫntj (“foremost”), thus ‘foremost house’.

Pronunciation

Noun
pr
U31		 pr

 m

  1. harem [since the 18th Dynasty]

Inflection
Declension of pr-ḫnr (masculine)
singular pr-ḫnr
dual prwj-ḫnr
plural prw-ḫnr

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ḫnr  
pr
fnD		 pr
pr
fnD		 prB1Z3
pr Z1
U31		 t
Z2ss
prxntpr
pr
Z1		 xntt
y		 fnD
pr
pr
Z1		 xntn
t y		 fnD
pr
pr
Z1		 xntn
t y		 fnD
pr		 B1
Z2ss
pr-ḫnr pr-ḫnr pr-ḫnrt pr-ḫnt pr-ḫntj pr-ḫntj pr-ḫntj
[18th Dynasty] [19th Dynasty] [19th Dynasty] [19th Dynasty] [19th Dynasty]

References
  • “pr-ḫnr (lemma ID 60790)”, 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
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 297.3–297.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90
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