pr-ḫnr

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ ḫnr (“harem”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of the harem’. Since the 19th Dynasty the second element is sometimes written and reanalyzed as ḫntj (“foremost”), thus ‘foremost house’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr xɛnɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: per-khener

Noun

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1. harem [since the 18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of pr-ḫnr (masculine)

singular	pr-ḫnr
dual	prwj-ḫnr
plural	prw-ḫnr

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-ḫnr  

pr-ḫnr	pr-ḫnr	pr-ḫnrt	pr-ḫnt	pr-ḫntj	pr-ḫntj	pr-ḫntj
		[18th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]

References

• “pr-ḫnr (lemma ID 60790)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 297.3–297.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 90