ⲛⲟⲩϥ

Coptic

Alternative forms

• ⲛⲟⲩⲃ (noub) — Sahidic, Fayyumic, Bohairic

Etymology

Egyptian gold stater

From Demotic nbw (“gold”), from Egyptian (nbw, “gold”).

Noun

ⲛⲟⲩϥ • (nouf) m (uncountable)

1. (Sahidic, Fayyumic) gold
   1. (by extension) money

References

• Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 221
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN