mr.n-rꜥ

mr.n (perfect relative form of mrj (“to love”)) +‎ rꜥ (“Ra”), thus literally ‘(the one) whom Ra has loved’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛrʔɛn rɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: mer.en-ra

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1. A throne name notably borne by Nemtyemzaef Merenre I and II, two pharaohs of the Sixth Dynasty
   • c. 2255 BCE – 2246 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Merenre — west wall of the corridor’s middle section, line 12–13, spell 606.26–606.28:[1]

     nmtj-m-zꜣ.f mr.n-rꜥ pn ḏj.sn ꜥnḫ.k nḥr.k jtrw ḥr-ꜣḫtj m jrt.sn rn.f m ḥr jr nṯrw

     O Nemtyemzaef Merenre, they will make you live and equal the seasons of Horakhty when they made his identity as the One Far From The Gods.

• → English: Merenre, Merenra

• “Mr.n-Rꜥw (lemma ID 401175)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 43
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 57, 185
• Sethe, Kurt (1908) Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte nach den Papierabdrücken und Photographien des Berliner Museums, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, volume 1, page XII