kbn

Egyptian

Etymology

From Semitic *gubl-; compare Phoenician 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (gbl), Akkadian 𒁺𒆷 (/⁠gubla⁠/), Hebrew גְּבַל (gəḇál), Arabic جُبَيْل (jubayl).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɛbɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: keben

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. Byblos, a town in the Levant [since the Old Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kbn  

kpnj	kpnj	kpwnꜣ	kꜣbn
[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]
		in hieratic

Descendants

• Demotic: gpn
  • Old Coptic: ⲕⲉⲡⲛ (kepn)

References

• “Kbnj (lemma ID 163970)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 118.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285