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Egyptian
Etymology
nb (“lord, possessor”) + ꜥnḫ (“life”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘possessor of life’.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Declension of nb-ꜥnḫ (masculine)
Noun
m
- sarcophagus
Inflection
Declension of nb-ꜥnḫ (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-ꜥnḫ
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 199.11–199.14
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, 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
