tr

See also: .tr, TR, Tr., t. r., and tr.

𝆖	U+1D196, 𝆖 MUSICAL SYMBOL TR

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Translingual

Symbol

tr

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Turkish.
(music) trill
(mathematics) The symbol for the trace function on square matrices.

English

Noun

tr

Abbreviation of translator.
Abbreviation of table row.

Adjective

tr (not comparable)

(grammar) Abbreviation of transitive.

Synonyms

(grammar): tr.

Anagrams

R/T, RT, rt

Avokaya

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʈ /

Letter

tr (uppercase Tr)

A letter of the Avokaya alphabet.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: ter

Etymology 1

Noun

m

point or span of time, particular time (+ genitive: time of (a season, a part of the day, a date, a festival, an event, etc.))
duration of time (+ genitive: lasting, consisting of (some measure)) [Late Period]
proper time for something
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.6–1.7:
  
  ẖz pw ḥnt n ẖt.f swꜣ tr smḫ.n.f wstn ẖt m pr.sn
  He who is greedy for the sake of his belly when the proper time passes, having forgotten those in whose house his belly roams free, is a wretch.^[1]
time when something will reach fulfilment, particularly of the end of pregnancy or death
season, time of year
time when someone is alive, lifetime (of people, gods, ancestors) [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]
(in the dual) day and night
(in the plural) divisions of time

Usage notes

Since the New Kingdom, the dual of this word starts to occasionally be used for the singular or plural.

Inflection

Declension of tr (masculine)

singular	tr
dual	trwj
plural	trw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tr

tr

trj

jtr

tr

ṯr

tr

Descendants

Demotic: tꜣ, ṯꜣ
- Coptic: ⲧⲏ (tē), ⲧⲉ (te)

Etymology 2

Particle

enclitic

Interrogative particle; indicates that the phrase is a question
really?, actually?
(rare) Used to emphasize a preceding adjective with the admirative suffix -wj

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tr

tj

tr

trj

Derived terms

ptr

Etymology 3

Verb

2-lit.

Alternative form of twr (“to respect”)

References

“tr (lemma ID 172700)” and “tr (lemma ID 172720)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 313.12–316.11, 316–317.9
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 300
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 56, 103, 107, 216, 281.

^ The latter part of this sentence is ambiguous and can be interpreted in numerous ways. Both swꜣ tr (“(when) the proper time passes”) and smḫ.n .f wstn ẖt m pr .sn (“he has forgotten/having forgotten…, etc.”) may be taken either as adverbial clauses (as rendered here) or main clauses. Furthermore, if wstn is taken as a participle rather than a relative form, the phrase it introduces could mean ‘he whose belly roams free at home’ rather than ‘those in whose house his belly roams free’; in this case the preceding perfect verb form smḫ.n demands a different interpretation. One possible solution is to read it with a counterfactual meaning ‘would that he forgot…’ instead of ‘he has forgotten…’; this is substantially the tack taken in Simpson 2003, The Literature of Ancient Egypt. Such counterfactual uses of the bare perfect are, however, rare. Another solution is that taken in Allen 2015, Middle Egyptian Literature, who reinterprets smḫ.n.f as smḫ nf (“those forget…”), taking nf as a pronoun referring to the “multitude” mentioned several sentences prior. This proposed antecedent is, however, far enough removed as to make such an interpretation doubtful.

Maore Comorian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʈ/

Letter

tr (upper case Tr)

A letter of the Maore Comorian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Mapudungun

Alternative forms

x

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʂ/

Letter

tr (uppercase Tr)

A letter of the Mapuche alphabet.

Romanian

Interjection

tr

Obsolete form of ptru.

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From troigh.

Noun

tr

ft (foot/feet)

[1] The latter part of this sentence is ambiguous and can be interpreted in numerous ways. Both swꜣ tr (“(when) the proper time passes”) and smḫ.n .f wstn ẖt m pr .sn (“he has forgotten/having forgotten…, etc.”) may be taken either as adverbial clauses (as rendered here) or main clauses. Furthermore, if wstn is taken as a participle rather than a relative form, the phrase it introduces could mean ‘he whose belly roams free at home’ rather than ‘those in whose house his belly roams free’; in this case the preceding perfect verb form smḫ.n demands a different interpretation. One possible solution is to read it with a counterfactual meaning ‘would that he forgot…’ instead of ‘he has forgotten…’; this is substantially the tack taken in Simpson 2003, The Literature of Ancient Egypt. Such counterfactual uses of the bare perfect are, however, rare. Another solution is that taken in Allen 2015, Middle Egyptian Literature, who reinterprets smḫ.n.f as smḫ nf (“those forget…”), taking nf as a pronoun referring to the “multitude” mentioned several sentences prior. This proposed antecedent is, however, far enough removed as to make such an interpretation doubtful.

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