mꜣr

Egyptian

Etymology

m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ ꜣr (“to repulse, to oppress”)

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /møʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɑr/
  • Conventional anglicization: mar

Noun

 m

1. poor and powerless person, wretch [since the end of the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of mꜣr (masculine)

singular	mꜣr
dual	mꜣrwj
plural	mꜣrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mꜣr  

mꜣr	mꜣr	mꜣjr	mꜣjr	mꜣjr
[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Antonyms

• wsr

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 257.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 30.2–30.3