ꜥm

Egyptian verb

Last edited: 2024-02-25
Primary meaning to swallow
Literal translation to swallow
Variants
ꜥm
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to swallow celestial phenomenon

Refers to a lunar eclipse

ỉ.ỉr=y sḏm=s n Ṱbn pꜣy=(y) dmỉ ḏd ꜥm tꜣ p.t pꜣ ỉt[n]

‘I have heard in Teben my hometown that the sky has swallowed the disc’

— P.Berol. 13588 iii 1

Genre: literary text
Provenance: Abusir el-Meleq
Date: 305 BCE - 30 BCE

W. Erichsen, 1956, Eine neue demotische Erzählung, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 1956 (2), Mainz - Wiesbaden , 49-81

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). ꜥm (Lemma #578). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/578/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). ꜥm (Lemma #578). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/578/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). ꜥm (Lemma #578). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/578/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) ꜥm (Lemma #578), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/578/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac578,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ꜥm ({Lemma} #578)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/578/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/578/},
}