ḏsr

See also: dsr, DSR, dSr, and dšr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛsɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: djeser

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) sacred
2. (transitive) to clear or keep clear (a road, a path) (+ n: for (someone))
3. (transitive) to sunder, to separate, to isolate or segregate away (+ r: from)
4. (intransitive) to be(come) separated from
5. (transitive) to sanctify, to make sacred [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḏsr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḏsr, geminated stem: ḏsrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḏsr	ḏsrw, ḏsr	ḏsrt	ḏsr	ḏsr

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ḏsr	ḥr ḏsr	m ḏsr	r ḏsr

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḏsr.n	ḏsrw, ḏsr	consecutive	ḏsr.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḏsrt
perfective3	ḏsr	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḏsr.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḏsr	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḏsr	ḏsrr	potentialis1	ḏsr.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḏsr	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḏsr.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḏsr	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḏsr	ḏsr, ḏsrw5, ḏsry5
imperfective	ḏsr, ḏsry, ḏsrw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḏsr, ḏsrj6, ḏsry6	ḏsr, ḏsrw5
prospective	ḏsr, ḏsrtj7	—	ḏsrtj4, ḏsrt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏsr  

ḏsr

Derived terms

• tꜣ-ḏsr
• sḫm-pḥtj-ḏsr-ḫꜥw
• ḏsr-kꜣ-rꜥ

Proper noun

 m

1. A throne name notably borne by Djoser, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏsr  

ḏsr	ḏsr-it	ḏsr-sꜣ
[Ptolemaic Period]
from the famine stela on Sehel Island	Turin King List, damaged	Abydos King List, damaged

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volumes 609.11–614.14, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 324
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 365.
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, page 176
• Gardiner, Alan (1959) The Royal Canon of Turin, III:5