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Egyptian
Etymology
From zḥ (“booth, hall, embalmer’s workshop”) + nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘booth of the god’, ‘divine booth’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
- the mythological booth or hall in which Anubis cleaned and embalmed the corpse of Osiris
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zḥ-nṯr
Derived terms
Noun
m
- small wooden chapel
- temple
- chamber in a temple
Inflection
Declension of zḥ-nṯr (masculine)
See the alternative forms under the proper noun above.
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 465.1–465.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 237
