pr-nbw

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ nbw (“gold”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of gold’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr nɛbuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: per-nebu

Noun

 m

1. treasury

Inflection

Declension of pr-nbw (masculine)

singular	pr-nbw
dual	prwj-nbw
plural	prw-nbw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-nbw  

pr-nbw	pr n nbw
	[New Kingdom]

References

• “pr-nbw (lemma ID 60660)”, 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, pages 517.7–517.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89