rḏj jp ḥr

Egyptian

Etymology

From rḏj (“to give, to set”) +‎ jp (“whack^?, accounting^?”) +‎ ḥr (“upon”). The second element is perhaps to be identified with jp (“accounting”); if not, it seemingly only appears in this phrase and never independently.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛd͡ʒi ip hɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: redji ip her

Verb

 compound

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Middle Kingdom]
   1. to hit someone on (a body part, in particular the hand or forehead)

References

• “jp (lemma ID 24090)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 67.4