kī namlu tumḫaṣu lā tiḳabbilu u tanšuku ḳāti amēli ša yimaḫḫašši ‘When an ant is smitten, does not it fight and bite the hand of the man who smote it?’ (EA 252: 16-19)
The Amarna form renders Egyptian pꜣ mhr “the warrior”, whose former element is the New Egyptian definite article and latter, a West Semitic word derived from *mhr ‘to be smart, capable, able’ (Hoch 1994:147–149).