rꜥ

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ra

Noun

 m

1. sun [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (in fixed expressions) day (period of daylight) [since the Old Kingdom]
3. (rare) sun of one particular day [Middle Kingdom literature]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  

rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ
	[since the Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]
		in personal names

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  

rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rꜥ	rwꜥ	rꜥ
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[since the New Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Proper noun

 m

1. the god Ra (literally “Sun”) [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. epithet for the king [since the Middle Kingdom]
3. (only in the plural) one of a number of minor ‘Ra-gods’ or sun gods [since the New Kingdom]

See also

• 𓁚, 𓁛

References

• “rꜥw (lemma ID 93290)”, “Rꜥw (lemma ID 400015)”, “Rꜥw (lemma ID 853477)”, and “Rꜥw.w (lemma ID 860277)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 401.5–401.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 147