nfr-kꜣ-rꜥ
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”) + kꜣ (“ka”) + rꜥ (“Ra”), thus literally ‘the fine (one) of the ka of Ra’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛfɛr kɑ rɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: nefer-ka-ra
Proper noun
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- a male given name, Neferkare or Neferkara
- A throne name notably borne by Pepi II Neferkare, a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty
References
[edit]- “Nfr-kꜣ-Rꜥw (lemma ID 400330)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 30, 43
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 48, 57, 174, 185