A house or enclosure

pr

Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

[1]

Pronunciation

pr

Note

Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Phonogram · biliteral

prAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

[1]

Logogram

prhouse, domainAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

[1][2]

Classifier

buildings and placesAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

[1]

pr

𓉐

𓏤

Spelled with O1, Z1

house

• Middle Egyptian

Role: Logogram · Reading: pr

[3]

pr

𓉐

𓂋

𓂻

Spelled with O1, D21, D54

go out, come forth

• Middle Egyptian

Role: Phonogram (biliteral) · Reading: pr

Same sounds, different word: the walking legs mark it as motion.

[3]

pr-ꜥꜣ

𓉐

𓉻

Spelled with O1, O29

"Great House": the palace, later the king (pharaoh)

• Middle Egyptian

Role: Logogram · Reading: pr

[3]

No attestations recorded for this sign yet.

Discussion

[1]

Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.

Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).

Cited for: Sign-list O1; Sign-list O4

[2]

Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).

Cited for: U+13250; U+13257

[3]

Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.

Cited for: s.v. pr; s.v. prꞽ; s.v. pr-ꜥꜣ

History

1. 2 Oct 2026·Direct edit

   Changed sign O1

   Common rank

   — → 63

   Edited by Archive maintainers