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Egyptian
Etymology
nb (“lord, possessor”) + kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘possessor of life-force/sustenance’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- a throne name notably borne by Nebka, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-kꜣ
References
- “Nb-kꜣ (lemma ID 853626)”, 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
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 33
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 50, 176
