ꜥꜣm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑm/
  • Conventional anglicization: aam

Noun

 m

1. A member of one of the foreign Asian peoples living north and east of the Egyptian borders; Asian, Semite [since the Old Kingdom]
   • c. 1555 BCE, Second Stela of Kamose:

     
     
     

     wh{m} jb.k jr.f ꜥꜣm ẖz m.k swrj.j m jrp n(j) kꜣmw.k m ꜥtḫ n.j ꜥꜣmw n(j) ḥꜣq.j

     May your heart fail, you wretched Asiatic! Look, I drink of the wine of your vineyard, which the Asiatics I have captured press for me.

2. Syrian slave
3. herdsman [since the 19th Dynasty]

Usage notes

This word is conventionally translated as Asiatic; it is often found in opposition to the word for foreigners south of Egypt, nḥsj.

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣm (masculine)

singular	ꜥꜣm
dual	ꜥꜣmwj
plural	ꜥꜣmw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣm  

ꜥꜣm	ꜥꜣm	ꜥꜣm	ꜥꜣm	ꜥꜣm	ꜥꜣm	ꜥꜣm
[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣmt

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜣm
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲏ (amē)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉ (ame)

Noun

 m

1. throwing stick, boomerang [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣm (masculine)

singular	ꜥꜣm
dual	ꜥꜣmwj
plural	ꜥꜣmw

Related terms

• ꜥmꜥꜣt

References

• “ꜥꜣm (lemma ID 35400)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 167.18–167.21
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976), Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 5–6