nb-kꜣ
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
nb (“lord, possessor”) + kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘possessor of life-force/sustenance’.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛb kɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: neb-ka
Proper noun[edit]
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- A throne name notably borne by Nebka, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-kꜣ
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References[edit]
- “Nb-kꜣ (lemma ID 853626)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 33
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 50, 176