pr

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English

Adjective

pr

1. Abbreviation of present.

Demotic

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰoːɾ/ (stressed), IPA^(key): /pəɾ/ (unstressed)

Noun

 m

1. temple
2. house
3. palace

Usage notes

This word is almost entirely restricted to compounds. Contrary to earlier Egyptian, the ordinary word for house in Demotic is ꜥ.wy.

Alternative forms

• (pr)

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣ- (per-), -ⲡⲱⲣ (-pōr)

References

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 132
• Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic‎^[1], third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 9
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 127

Egyptian

Etymology

Possibly from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *par- (“house”). Compare also Proto-Berber *farr (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: per

Noun

 m

1. house
2. household, inhabitants of a house collectively
3. property collectively, possessions, estate
4. (Late Egyptian) garden or estate as a piece of land
5. (of the king) palace
6. (of gods) temple
7. (of gods) temple property and administration, temple estate
8. (of the dead) tomb
9. (usually with qualifying word) building with some other particular use
10. (rare) nest (of the bꜣybꜣy insect) [Medical Papyri]
11. case, chest, holder (for ointments, bows, mirrors, etc.)

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Demotic: (pr)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣ- (per-), -ⲡⲱⲣ (-pōr)

References

• “pr (lemma ID 60220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 511.7–516.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pr

1. the sound of an object cracking

References

• pr in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English PR (“public relations”). First attested in 1959

Alternative forms

• PR

Noun

pr c

1. PR, public relations
2. (by extention) publicity (resulting from PR or similar activities)

Derived terms

• pr-avdelning (“PR department”)
• pr-bransch (“PR sector”)
• pr-byrå (“PR agency”)
• pr-konsult (“PR consult”)

Etymology 2

1. alternative spelling of per (“per; by”)
2. alternative letter-case form of PR (“poste restante”).

References

• pr in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)