mḏd

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See also: mdd, MDD, and m ḏd

Egyptian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to physically strike (someone or something) with an arrow or spear
  2. (transitive) to physically strike with (an arrow or spear) [Late Period]
  3. (intransitive, in fixed expressions) to hit the target when shooting arrows [New Kingdom]
  4. (transitive, of fire) to meet (someone) [Pyramid Texts and Late Period]
  5. (transitive) to drive in (a stake or pale) [19th Dynasty]
  6. (transitive) to symbolically drive an implement, originally one’s little finger, into (the mouth) of the deceased in the Opening of the Mouth ritual
  7. (transitive) to press hard on, as if to drive in
  8. (transitive) to obey, to follow (an order)
  9. (transitive) to practise (a virtue)
  10. (transitive) to follow, to stay true to (a path)
  11. (transitive) to distribute, to share out to the proper target
  12. (transitive) to impose (something) as a duty in the form of corvee labor or taxes [Old Kingdom]

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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Derived terms

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Noun

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  1. dues or obligations in the form of corvee labor or taxes [Old Kingdom]

Inflection

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Proper noun

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  1. Medjed, a minor god mentioned in the Book of the Dead
    • c. 1478 BCE – 1397 BCE, Book of the Dead of Nu (pLondon British Museum EA 10477) chapter 17, lines 76–79:[1]
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      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
      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

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Descendants

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  • English: Medjed

References

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  1. ^ BM EA10477,3; text begins midway down the 20th line from the left of sheet 3.