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 [sic] jb.k jr.f ꜥꜣm ẖz m.k swrj.j m jrp n kꜣmw.k m ꜥtḫ n.j ꜥꜣmw n ḥꜣq.j

     May your heart fail, you vile Asiatic! Look, I drink of the wine of your vineyards, which is pressed by the Asiatics I have captured.

2. Syrian slave

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

• ꜥꜣmt

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

 m

1. Throwing stick, boomerang [18th Dynasty]

• ꜥmꜥꜣt

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 112
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 167.19–167.21