Egyptian
Etymology
mn (“established”) + kꜣw (“life-forces”) + rꜥ (“Ra”) in two direct genitive constructions, thus ‘the established (one) of the life-forces of Ra’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
- a throne name notably borne by Menkaure, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mn-kꜣw-rꜥ
Descendants
- → Arabic: مِنْقَرَع (minqaraʕ)
- → Ancient Greek: Μυκερῖνος (Mukerînos), Μεγχέρης (Menkhérēs)
References
- “Mn-kꜣ.w-Rꜥw (lemma ID 450221)”, 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
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 36
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 53, 179