jmn

Initialism of English Makuri Naga with j as a placeholder.

jmn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Makuri Naga.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Makuri Naga terms

Compare Arabic ء م ن (ʔ m n) and Hebrew א־מ־ן (ʾ-m-n).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen

 3-lit.

1. (transitive or reflexive) to hide, to conceal, to make secret (+ r: from (someone); + m: in (something))
2. (intransitive) to hide, to be(come) hidden or secret
3. (intransitive, by extension) to be(come) rare or precious [Greco-Roman Period]
4. (transitive) to create, form, shape (in a cosmic, divine sense) [Pyramid Texts and 18th Dynasty]

Often used with a following noun to mean ‘one who/which hides…’, ‘one with a hidden…’.

• Demotic Egyptian: jmn, ꜣmn

1. perfective active participle of jmn: hidden, secret, precious

See under the verb above.

See under the verb above.

1. an epithet of various gods: hidden one, secret one

1. a priestly title: hidden one, secret one [Greco-Roman Period]

1. Amun, a primeval god, personification of the hiddenness of the primeval waters, worshipped at Hermopolis as a member of the Ogdoad [since the Pyramid Texts]

   Coordinate terms: jmnt, nnw, nnwt, kkw, kkwt, ḥḥw, ḥḥwt

2. Amun, a god worshipped at Thebes as a member of the Theban Triad, and seen as the king of the gods [since the Middle Kingdom]

• Demotic Egyptian: jmn
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ (amoun)
    • → English: Amun
    • → Ancient Greek: Ἀμοῦν (Amoûn)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἄμμων (Ámmōn)
    • → Coptic: ⲁⲙⲙⲱⲛ (ammōn)
• → Meroitic: 𐦠𐦨𐦩𐦢 (amni /⁠amani⁠/)
• → Middle Babylonian: [Term?] (/⁠amâna⁠/), [Term?] (/⁠amûnu⁠/)

1. a minor god in the form of a snake worshipped at Prosopis and Thebes [Theban Royal Tombs and Greco-Roman Period]

From Proto-Afroasiatic *yamin-. Cognate with Proto-Semitic *yamīn- (“right”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen

1. right (direction) [Pyramid Texts]

   Synonym: wnmj

2. western

This word was chiefly used in very old texts, and early on replaced by wnmj.

• jꜣbj
• jꜣbtj

1. right side [Pyramid Texts]

   ― ḥr jmn ― to the right

   ― m jmn ― to the right

2. the West

   Synonyms: jmnt, jmntt

See under the adjective above.

From j- +‎ mn (“to be established, to remain”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen

1. only used in jrj jmn (“to make one’s abode, to sojourn”): abode, place of stay [Pyramid Texts]

• “jmn (lemma ID 26030)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26020)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26040)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26050)”, “Jmn (lemma ID 26060)”, “Jmn (lemma ID 26070)”, “jmn (lemma ID 26080)”, and “jmn (lemma ID 854325)”, 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, pages 83.4–83.6, 83.12–84.7, 84.15–85.2, 85.11–85.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 186, 280.