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Egyptian
Etymology
nb (“lord”) + pt (“sky”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘lord of the sky’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
- a very common epithet of various gods, originally of Horus of Behdet and Ra
- an epithet for a dead king
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-pt
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 490.14–490.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 128
