tꜣ-ḏsr

Egyptian

Etymology

tꜣ (“land”) +‎ ḏsr (“sacred”), thus ‘sacred land’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɑ d͡ʒɛsɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: ta-djeser

Noun

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1. necropolis

Inflection

Declension of tꜣ-ḏsr (masculine)

singular	tꜣ-ḏsr
dual	tꜣwj-ḏsrwj
plural	tꜣw-ḏsr

Derived terms

• nb-tꜣ-ḏsr

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 365–366.