nb-kꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

nb (“lord, possessor”) +‎ kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘possessor of life-force/sustenance’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun
nbkA

 m

  1. A throne name notably borne by Nebka, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-kꜣ  
nbkAZ1
nb-kꜣ

References
  • “Nb-kꜣ (lemma ID 853626)”, 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
  • Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 33
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 50, 176
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