ḥr-nb-ꜥḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ nb (“lord”) +‎ ꜥḥ (“palace”), thus “Horus, lord of the palace”.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr nɛb ɑːh/
- Conventional anglicization: hor-neb-ah

Noun

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an epithet of the king [since the Middle Kingdom[1]]

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 124.6

Grapow, Hermann, et al. (1897–1939) Das digitalisierte Zettelarchiv des “Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache” (DZA)‎, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, published 1999, DZA 26.999.810

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