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

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
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