ꜥꜣj

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Egyptian

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Verb

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AY1V

 3ae inf.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) physically big, large
  2. (intransitive) to be(come) much, numerous, many in number or great in quantity
  3. (intransitive, of abstract things) to be(come) great in degree or magnitude, strong, extreme
    1. (intransitive, of age) to be(come) high, great
    2. (intransitive, of strength and power) to be(come) strong, great, mighty
    3. (intransitive, of magic, protection, etc.) to be(come) strong, effective, great
  4. (intransitive, of time) to be(come) long
  5. (intransitive, of people, gods, etc.) to be(come) older, senior, the elder among several
    • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Nakhti, British Museum EA 143:
      Q1ir
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      wsjr nb-ḏdw nṯr-ꜥꜣ []
      Osiris, Lord of Djedu, the elder god []
  6. (intransitive, of people, names, etc.) to be(come) great, important, distinguished, exalted
  7. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) superior, in charge
  8. (intransitive, of crimes) to be(come) grave, severe
  9. (intransitive, of words and decrees) to be(come) heavy, weighty, important
  10. (intransitive, of the Nile) to be(come) high, swollen with floodwater, to be in inundation
  11. (intransitive, of festivals and funerals) to be(come) great, magnificent

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References

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  • ꜥꜣi̯ (lemma ID 34750)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 161.3–162.17
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 37
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 457.