nb-ꜥnḫ

Egyptian

Etymology

nb (“lord, possessor”) +‎ ꜥnḫ (“life”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘possessor of life’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb ɑːnx/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb-ankh

Noun

 m

1. dead person who has successfully completed the transition to the afterlife (and so become ‘living’), especially as an epithet for Osiris
2. epithet for various gods

Inflection

Declension of nb-ꜥnḫ (masculine)

singular	nb-ꜥnḫ
dual	nbwj-ꜥnḫ
plural	nbw-ꜥnḫ

Noun

 m

1. sarcophagus

Inflection

Declension of nb-ꜥnḫ (masculine)

singular	nb-ꜥnḫ
dual	nbwj-ꜥnḫ
plural	nbw-ꜥnḫ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-ꜥnḫ  

nb-ꜥnḫ	nb-ꜥnḫ

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 199.11–199.14
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 228.13–228.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 128