kbn

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun
kbn
N25

  m./f. topo.

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

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kbn  
kp
n		 y
N25
kp
p		 n
y		 N25
kp
p W		 n
A		 T14N25
kA
Z1		 b
n		 T14
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, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, 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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