sr

See also: Sr, SR, .sr, sr., Sr., and šr

㏛	U+33DB, ㏛ SQUARE SR

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[U+33DA]

CJK Compatibility

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Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of steradian

Symbol

sr

(SI units) steradian (for measuring solid angles)
(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Serbian.

Abinomn

Noun

sr

sun

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: ser

Verb

2-lit.

(transitive) to predict, to foretell
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 30–32:
  
  sr.sn ḏꜥ nj jjt nšnj nj ḫprt.f
  They could predict a stormwind before it came or a thunderstorm before it happened.

Inflection

Conjugation of sr (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: sr, geminated stem: srr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sr	srw, sr	srt	sr, j.sr	sr, j.sr

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
sr	ḥr sr	m sr	r sr

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
aspect / mood	active	passive	aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sr.n	srw, sr	consecutive	sr.jn	active + .tj¹, .tw²
perfect	sr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²
terminative	srt
perfective³	sr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	sr.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
imperfective	sr, j.sr¹	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	sr.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	sr	srr	potentialis¹	sr.kꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	sr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
subjunctive	sr, j.sr¹	active + .tj¹, .tw²

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sr	srr, srrj⁶, sr², srw^{2 5}, sry^{2 5}
imperfective	j.sr¹, sr, sry, srw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	j.sr¹, j.srw^{1 5}, sr, srj⁶, sry⁶	sr, srw⁵
prospective	sr, srtj⁷	—	srtj⁴, srt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Noun

m

official, magistrate

Inflection

Declension of sr (masculine)

singular	sr
dual	srwj
plural	srw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sr

sr

Presumably based on the descendants, Allen reads this word with an unwritten j as srj.

Descendants

Demotic: srj
- Coptic: ⲥⲓⲟⲩⲣ (siour, “eunuch”)

Noun

m

hair of an animal or woman

Descendants

Coptic: ⲥⲓⲣ (sir)

Romanization

sr

Alternative transliteration of zr.

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 180.
Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168
Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume IV, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 189–191

French

Noun

s^r (plural s^rs)

Abbreviation of sieur.