nfr-jr-kꜣ-rꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”) +‎ jr (perfective relative form of jrj (“to do, to make”)) +‎ kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) +‎ rꜥ (“Ra”), thus ‘the fine one whom the life-force of Ra made’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfɛr ir kɑ rɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: nefer-ir-ka-ra

Proper noun

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1. A throne name notably borne by Neferirkare Kakai, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfr-jr-kꜣ-rꜥ  

nfr-jr-kꜣ-rꜥ

References

• “Nfr-jr-kꜣ-Rꜥw (lemma ID 99016)”, 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
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 39
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 54, 181