ysrjꜣr

Egyptian

Etymology

If the term means Israel, as is considered most likely, then borrowed from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrāʾēl). (However, alternative readings have sometimes been proposed, such as Jezreel.)

Pronunciation

Proper noun
iiz
Z1s Z1s
r		 iAr
Z1 T14		 A1 B1
Z2

 m

  1. a demonym or placename; probably Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, approximately coincident with the modern State of Israel)
    • c. 1208 B.C.E., Merneptah Stele, Line 27:
      iiz
      Z1s Z1s
      r      		 iAr
      Z1 T14      		 A1 B1
      Z2      		 f
      k
      t
      nDs      		 b
      n      		 pr
      r
      t      		 N33C
      Z2
      f
      ysrjꜣr fkt bn prt.f
      Israel is laid waste, and he has no seed.

References
  • “Yzrꜣr (lemma ID 859140)”, 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
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