# rmn
## Egyptian
### Pronunciation

* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /rɛmɛn/
** Conventional anglicization: remen

### Noun

m
* shoulder, arm
** (often in the dual) shoulder, upper arm [since the Pyramid Texts]
** (often in the dual) arm of a person in general, especially when in reference to moving it into a particular configuration
    Synonym: ꜥ
** (in the dual) arms of a balance scale
* side, half
** side of a place, person, mountain, etc.
    Synonym: gs
** one side or half of a body of water [Papyrus Westcar]
** row of rowers along one side of a boat, one side of a rowing crew [Papyrus Westcar]
** side of beef [Papyrus Westcar]
** (in the dual) side rails (uprights) of a ladder

#### Usage notes

Often used in parallel to ꜥ (“hand, arm”) with both in the dual, thus rmnwj ꜥwj (“arms and hands”). In other contexts the two terms may be synonyms.

#### Alternative forms

| rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn |
| [Pyramid Texts] | [Pyramid Texts] | [Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] |
| | | | | | abbreviation | abbreviation |
| rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn |
| [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period] |
| | | abbreviation | abbreviation |
| rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn |
| [Second Intermediate Period] | [Second Intermediate Period] | [Second Intermediate Period] | [New Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] |
| in the sense ‘half of a body of water’ | in the sense ‘row of (female) rowers’ | in the sense ‘side of beef’ | | | abbreviation | abbreviation |

#### Derived terms

* tp rmn

### Noun

m
* a measure of length equivalent to 20 ḏbꜥw (“digits”), 5 šzpw (“palms”), or $^5$⁄$_7$ of a mḥ (“cubit”) (about 37.6 centimetres)
* a measure of length equivalent to $^1$⁄$_2$ of a ḫt (“rod”) or 50 mḥw (“cubits”) (about 26.25 metres)

#### Inflection
### Noun

m
* a measure of area equivalent to $^1$⁄$_2$ of a sṯꜣt (“aroura”) or 50 mḥw-tꜣ (“centarouras”) (about 0.14 hectares)

#### Alternative forms

| rmn | rmn |
| | [Old Kingdom] |

### Noun

m
* (usually in the plural) bearer, carrier, supporter (usually a priest), especially of a sacred object such as a cultic image or chapel [since the Pyramid Texts]
* (in the plural) the supports imagined to hold up the sky [Book of the Dead]
* (in the plural) pillars, columns [Greco-Roman Period]

#### Alternative forms

| rmn | rmn | rmn | rmn | rmnw | rmn | rmn |
| [Old Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [Theban royal tombs] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
| | | | abbreviation | | in the sense ‘pillar’ | abbreviation |

#### Derived terms

* rmnw-nṯr
* rmn-pt
* rmn-ḥr
* rmn-ẖr
* rmn-sꜣḥ

#### Related terms

* rmnj

### References

* “rmn (lemma ID 854523)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94290)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94280)”, “rmn (lemma ID 94300)”, and “rmn (lemma ID 94310)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
* Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 418.1–419.3, 419.19–420.10
* Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 149
* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 125, 389.