kbn

Translingual

Symbol

kbn

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kare (Africa).

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Kare (Africa) terms

Egyptian

Etymology

From Semitic *gubl-; compare Phoenician 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (gbl), Akkadian 𒁺𒆷 (/⁠gubla⁠/), Hebrew גְּבַל (gəḇál), Arabic جُبَيْل (jubayl).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

  1. Byblos, a town in the Levant [since the Old Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kbn  






kpnj kpnj kpwnꜣ kꜣbn
[since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [18th Dynasty]
in hieratic

Descendants

  • Demotic: gpn
    • Old Coptic: ⲕⲉⲡⲛ (kepn)[1]

References

  1. ^ Osing, Jürgen (1998) Hieratische Papyri aus Tebtunis I, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 53
  • “Kbnj (lemma ID 163970)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 118.2
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285
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