View source for mḏd

{{also|mdd|MDD|m ḏd}}
==Egyptian==

===Etymology===
The proper noun is derived from the participle of the verb, thus perhaps meaning ‘the one who hits the mark’, ‘the true-striking’.

===Pronunciation===
{{egy-IPA-E}}

===Verb===
{{egy-verb|3-lit|head=m-D:d-Aa23}}

# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[physically]] [[strike]] (someone or something) with an [[arrow]] or [[spear]]
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[physically]] [[strike]] with (an [[arrow]] or [[spear]]) {{defdate|Late Period}}
# {{lb|egy|intransitive|in fixed expressions}} to [[hit]] the [[target]] when [[shoot]]ing [[arrow]]s {{defdate|New Kingdom}}
# {{lb|egy|transitive|of fire}} to [[meet]] (someone) {{defdate|Pyramid Texts and Late Period}}
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[drive]] in (a [[stake]] or [[pale]]) {{defdate|19th Dynasty}}
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[symbolically]] [[drive]] an [[implement]], [[originally]] one’s [[little finger]], into (the [[mouth]]) of the [[deceased]] in the {{w|Opening of the Mouth}} [[ritual]]
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[press]] [[hard]] on, as if to drive in
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[obey]], to [[follow]] (an [[order]])
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[practise]] (a [[virtue]])
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[follow]], to [[stay]] [[true]] to (a [[path]])
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[distribute]], to [[share out]] to the [[proper]] [[target]]
# {{lb|egy|transitive}} to [[impose]] (something) as a [[duty]] in the form of [[corvee]] [[labor]] or [[tax]]es {{defdate|Old Kingdom}}

====Inflection====
{{egy-conj-3-lit|mḏd|mḏdd}}

====Alternative forms====
{{egy-hieroforms
|Aa23|read1=mḏd|note1=abbreviation
|Aa24|read2=mḏd|note2=abbreviation
|Aa24:d|read3=mḏd|date3=Old Kingdom
|m-a-D:d-Aa23-A24|read4=mḏd|date4=Middle Kingdom|note4=in hieratic
|M:a-D:d-Aa23-D40|read5=mḏd|date5=New Kingdom
|m-D-Aa23|read6=mḏ|date6=New Kingdom}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|egy
|wd-r-mḏd
|mḏdw
|mḏd wꜣt
|mḏd mṯn
|mḏd-r-nbtj
|mḏdt
|r mḏdw n jb n
|rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ
|st-r-mḏd}}

===Noun===
{{egy-noun|m|head=Aa24-Y1}}

# [[due]]s or [[obligation]]s in the [[form]] of [[corvee]] [[labor]] or [[tax]]es {{defdate|Old Kingdom}}

====Inflection====
{{egy-decl-noun|g=m|mḏd}}

===Proper noun===
{{etymid|egy|god}}
[[File:Greenfield papyrus - sheet 12 - Medjed.jpg|thumb|m-a-D:d-Aa24]]
{{egy-proper noun|m|head=m-a-D:d-Aa24}}

# [[Medjed]], a [[minor]] [[god]] [[mention]]ed in the [[Book of the Dead]]
#* {{Q|egy||BD Nu|chapter 17, lines 76–79|refn=<ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10477-3 BM EA10477,3]; text begins midway down the 20th line from the left of sheet 3.</ref>
|quote={{egy-h|D35:n-h-A-i-i-D54-A1-r:k:t-w-t:Aa2-N34:Z2-z:n:Z2-!-Hr-Z1-n:t**t-w&t-A1-r:x-[[-Y1:k-]]-w-A1-s-H_SPACE:t-r:x-Y1:k-w-A1-<!--77-->m-a-D:d-Aa24-H_SPACE:p-w-i-i-!-i-imi-m-y:H_SPACE-z:n:Z2-n:pr*Z1-st:ir-A40-F29-t:T11:D40-m-ir:t*Z1-f:D35-U2:ir-A-n:t-w-f-!-F46-n:D54-p*t:pt-m-n:ns:z-Q7-n:r*Z1:f-s-mi-i-A2-H-a:p-N36:N35B-A40-<!--78-->D35-U2:ir-A-n:t-w-f}}
|tr=nn hꜣy.j r ktwt.sn ḥr ntt {t}wj rḫ.kw st rḫ.kw '''mḏd''' pwy jmj.sn n(j) pr-wsjr stt m jrt.f nj mꜣ.n.tw.f pẖr.n pt m ns(rt) n(j) rꜣ.f smj ḥꜥpj nj mꜣ.n.tw.f
|t=I will not fall into their cauldron, for I know it, and I know of that '''Medjed''' among them of the House of Osiris who shoots from his eye without being able to be seen, with the flame of whose mouth the sky is encircled, whom Hapi announces without his being able to be seen.}}

====Alternative forms====
{{egy-hieroforms
|m-a-D:d-Aa24|read1=mḏd|date1=New Kingdom
|m-a-D-d-Aa24:D40|read2=mḏd|date2=New Kingdom
|m:a-D:d-Aa23C-G7|read3=mḏd|date3=Saite Period}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|en|Medjed|bor=1}}
** {{desc|ja|メジェド|tr=Mejedo|bor=1}}

===References===
* {{R:egy:TLA|mḏd|78770|mḏd|78780|mḏd|78850}}
* {{R:egy:Wb|2|191.14–192.9, 192.14}}
* {{R:egy:Faulkner|124}}
* {{R:egy:LGG|3|476}}
* Baud, Michel (1998) “[https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/98/2/ Une épithète de Rêdjedef et la prétendue tyrannie de Chéops. Étude sur la statuaire de Rêdjedef, II.]” in ''Le Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale'', volume 98, pages 15–30
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