ꜥꜣm

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

 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]

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

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

 m

1. throwing stick, boomerang [18th Dynasty]

• “ꜥꜣm (lemma ID 35400)”, 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 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