jmꜣḫw

Egyptian

Other romanization schemes

Manuel de Codage	imAxw
Gardiner (1927)	ꞽmꜣḫw
Erman & Grapow (1926)	ꞽmꜣḫw
Lepsius (1874)	ȧmaχu

Etymology

From jmꜣḫ (“to be honored, revered”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɑxuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: imakhu

Noun

 m

1. an epithet for the dead or, sometimes, the aged: revered one, venerable one (+ ḫr or genitive: one honored by (someone); + m: one honored in (a place))

   Synonym: nb-jmꜣḫ

   ― jmꜣḫ(w) mꜣꜥ ― true revered one

   ― jmꜣḫ(w) wꜥt(j) ― sole revered one

Usage notes

Useed either independently, or before or after the person in question’s name like a title.

Inflection

Declension of jmꜣḫw (masculine)

singular	jmꜣḫw
dual	jmꜣḫwwj
plural	jmꜣḫww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣḫw  

jmꜣḫw	jmꜣḫ	jmꜣḫ	jmꜣḫw	jmꜣḫ	jmꜣḫ

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣḫw  

jmꜣḫw	jmꜣḫy	jmꜣḫy	jmꜣḫj	jmꜣḫyw	jmꜣḫ	jmꜣḫyw	jmꜣḫ
[Pyramid Texts]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Second Intermediate Period]	[18th Dynasty]	[Late Period]
				plural		plural

Derived terms

• jmꜣḫw-ḫr-nṯr-ꜥꜣ
• jmꜣḫwt

References

• “jmꜣḫ.w (lemma ID 25090)” and “jmꜣḫ.w (lemma ID 885509)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 82.1–82.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 20
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 278, 367.