Amun

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An Egyptian wind deity associated with the town of Thebes; later (post-16th century BC) the creator deity.

Origin

• From Coptic ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, from Egyptian jmn ("the god Amun"). The variant forms Ammon and Amon are from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων, from the same Egyptian source. The variant Amen is from Ȧmen, Lepsius’s obsolete 19th century transcription of the original Egyptian word.