zꜣ-sbk
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Egyptian
Etymology
zꜣ (“son”) + sbk (“Sobek”) in a direct genitive construction, literally ‘son of Sobek’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɑ sɛbɛk/
- Conventional anglicization: za-sobek
Proper noun
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- a male given name, Sisobek or Sasobek
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 199.