zḥ-nṯr

Egyptian

Etymology

From zḥ (“booth, hall, embalmer’s workshop”) +‎ nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘booth of the god’, ‘divine booth’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛh nɛt͡ʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: zeh-netjer

Proper noun

 m

1. the mythological booth or hall in which Anubis cleaned and embalmed the corpse of Osiris [since the Pyramid Texts]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zḥ-nṯr  

zḥ-nṯr	zḥ-nṯr
	[Old Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ḫntj-zḥ-nṯr

Noun

 m

1. small wooden chapel [Old Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]
2. temple [since the 18th Dynasty]
3. chamber in a temple [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of zḥ-nṯr (masculine)

singular	zḥ-nṯr
dual	zḥwj-nṯr
plural	zḥw-nṯr

Alternative forms

See the alternative forms under the proper noun above.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 465.1–465.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 237