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Egyptian
Etymology
From nb (“lord, possessor”) + jmꜣḫ (“dignity, honor, reverence”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally “possessor of reverence”.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- an epithet for the dead: revered one, venerable one (+ ḫr: one honored by (someone))
- Synonym: jmꜣḫw
Inflection
Declension of nb-jmꜣḫ (masculine)
References
- “nb-jmꜣḫ (lemma ID 81950)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 81.18