nb-jmꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

From nb (“lord, possessor”) +‎ jmꜣt (“friendliness, charm, belovedness”) in a direct genitive construction, thus “possessor of friendliness/charm/belovedness”.

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. well-liked or charming one

Inflection

Declension of nb-jmꜣt (masculine)
singular nb-jmꜣt
dual nbwj-jmꜣt
plural nbw-jmꜣt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-jmꜣt  
nb-jmꜣt
[Middle Kingdom]

References

  • “nb-jꜣm.t (lemma ID 81940)”, 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 80.4
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 20
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