nbt-jmꜣḫ

Egyptian

Etymology

From nbt (“mistress, lady, (female) possessor”) +‎ jmꜣḫ (“dignity, honor, reverence”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally “possessor of reverence”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛbɛt imɑx/
  • Conventional anglicization: nebet-imakh

Noun

 m

1. an epithet for the (female) dead: revered one, venerable one (+ ḫr: one honored by (someone))

   Synonym: jmꜣḫwt

Inflection

Declension of nbt-jmꜣḫ (masculine)

singular	nbt-jmꜣḫ
dual	nbtj-jmꜣḫ
plural	nbwt-jmꜣḫ

References

• “nb.t-jmꜣḫ (lemma ID 400170)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 81.19