nb-ꜥnḫ
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
nb (“lord, possessor”) + ꜥnḫ (“life”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘possessor of life’.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛb ɑːnx/
- Conventional anglicization: neb-ankh
Noun[edit]
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m
- dead person who has successfully completed the transition to the afterlife (and so become ‘living’), especially as an epithet for Osiris
- epithet for various gods
Inflection[edit]
Noun[edit]
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m
Inflection[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-ꜥnḫ
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nb-ꜥnḫ | nb-ꜥnḫ |
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 199.11–199.14
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 228.13–228.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 128