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1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Norwegian Bokmål.

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nb

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of nobody.
   • 2023 May 10, @mkarrdashh, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2023:

     i hate when i text in the gc and nb replys

   • 2023 June 29, @imkaay, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2023:

     everybody say they hiring but nb hiringggg fr 🙄

   • 2023 August 31, u/Regular_Fisherman_51, “first day of high school coming up i need some advice quick”, in Reddit‎, r/BruceDropEmOff, archived from the original on 3 November 2023:

     Do yo own thing and don't gaf about what nb else say

   • 2023 October 5, u/Colors100, “Just need someone to talk to”, in Reddit‎, r/SuicideWatch, archived from the original on 3 November 2023:

     Public school was hell bc nb wanted to be my friend or associate with me due to me being trans.

nb

1. (cricket) Initialism of no ball.

nb

1. Initialism of nota bene.

nb (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of NB: initialism of non-binary.

• B.N., Bn, Bn., bn, bn.

From Egyptian (nb, “all, every”).

• IPA^(key): /niːβ/

1. (definite) all, every
2. (indefinite) any

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ (niben)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲃⲓ (nibi)
• Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)
• Oxyrhynchite Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)
• Coptic Dialect P: ⲛⲓⲃ (nib)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)

From Egyptian (nb, “lord”).

• IPA^(key): /neːβ/

 m

1. lord

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲏⲃ (nēb)
• Old Coptic: ⲛⲏⲃ (nēb)

From Egyptian (nbt, “mistress, lady”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈneːβə/

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1. mistress, lady (woman with authority over something)

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, pages 212–213
• Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic‎, third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 7

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb

1. all, every
2. every other
3. all sorts of, all kinds of
4. (especially in negated clauses) any

In the Pyramid Texts of Unas, among certain other Old Egyptian texts, nb is usually not inflected by gender and number but invariably appears as nb. Even within these texts, however, inflected forms sporadically appear.^[1]

In Late Egyptian, as all forms collapsed together with the masculine singular, the usual writing of the word came to follow the old feminine singular,

(nbt).

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb  

nb	nbt	nbw	nb	nb
rare

• Demotic: (nb)
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ (niben)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲃⲓ (nibi)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)
  • Oxyrhynchite Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)
  • Coptic Dialect P: ⲛⲓⲃ (nib)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)

Ehret attempts to derive this term from a Proto-Afroasiatic *ruub- (“to send”); as with other attempts at reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, academic consensus is lacking, and in this case the derivation is not particularly plausible.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb

 m

1. lord, master, ruler (of a place or people)
   • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Nakhti, British Museum EA 143:

     wsjr nb-ḏdw nṯr-ꜥꜣ

     Osiris, Lord of Djedu, the elder god

   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:

     jwyt zb(.w) sjw(w) rw.w tꜣ m ḥtpw ẖr nb.f

     Wrongdoing has gone, the Slanderer has departed, and the land is in peace under its lord.

2. (without following genitive noun, often as a term of address) master, superior
3. master (of a span of time)
4. owner, possessor, bearer (of an object)
5. possessor (of an abstract quality)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 23–24:

     smn mꜣꜥt n nb.s rdjw sꜣ r jsft

     Righteousness has been established for its possessor, and the back is turned on wrong.

6. an epithet of the king
7. an epithet of various gods, especially Osiris

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb  

nb	nb	nb	nb	nbw	nb	nb	nbt	nb	nb
	in reference to a person	in reference to the king	in reference to a king or god	rare	common only in the Old Kingdom

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb  

nb	nb	nb	nbw	nb	nb	nb
abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation

By the Late Period, the usual writing of the word came to follow the old feminine equivalent nbt (“lady, mistress”), as the two words merged into one.

• Demotic: (nb)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲏⲃ (nēb)
  • Old Coptic: ⲛⲏⲃ (nēb)

From m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ *bw(j) (“abomination”) with regular dissimilation of m- to n- before a labial; for the stem, compare bwt (“abomination”), bwj (“to abominate”).^[3]

• (reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnaβi/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb

 m

1. (hapax) sin, damage, impurity

• Demotic: ⁠⁠ (nby), ⁠⁠⁠ (nbe.t)
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲛⲁⲃⲉ (nabe)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲃⲓ (nobi)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲛⲁⲃⲓ (nabi), ⲛⲁϥⲓ (nafi)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲛⲁⲃⲉ (nabe)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲃⲉ (nobe)

nb

1. Alternative transliteration of nbw (“gold”).

• “nb (lemma ID 81660)”, “nb (lemma ID 81650)”, and “nbw (lemma ID 82730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 227.5–230.14, 234.3–236.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 128–129
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 896–897, 903
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 106
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 42