nṯr

See also: NTR, nTr, and ntr.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈnaːcaɾ/ → /ˈnaːtaʔ/ → /ˈnaːtaʔ/ → /ˈnoːtə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈnaːcaɾ/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈnaːtaʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈnaːtaʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈnoːtə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛt͡ʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: netjer

Noun

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1. god
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 2.2:

     nj rḫ.n.tw ḫprt jrrt nṯr ḫft ḫsf.f

     One cannot know what might come to be or what the god might do when he punishes.

Inflection

Declension of nṯr (masculine)

singular	nṯr
dual	nṯrwj
plural	nṯrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nṯr  

nṯr	nṯr

The plural is almost invariably written as

Plural writing of nṯr  

nṯrw

Derived terms

• ꜣbw-nṯr
• jt nṯrw
• mdw nṯr
• nswt-nṯrw
• nṯrj (“magic rope”)
• nṯrj (“divine, holy”)
• nṯryt (“natron”)
• nṯr ꜥꜣ
• nṯrw (“holy column”)
• nṯr-nfr
• nṯrt (“god's eye”)
• nṯrt (“goddess”)
• nṯrtj (“implement for "opening the mouth" of the deceased”)
• ḥwt-nṯr
• ḥm-nṯr
• ḥm-nṯr tpj
• ḫntj-zḥ-nṯr
• ẖrj-nṯr
• zḥ-nṯr
• tꜣ-nṯr

 

Descendants

• Demotic: ntr
  • Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (noute) (Sahidic), ⲛⲟⲩϯ (nouti) (Bohairic, Fayyumic), ⲛⲟⲩⲛⲧⲉ (nounte) (Akhmimic)

Further reading

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN