nfrt-jꜣbt

Egyptian

Etymology

nfrt (“beautiful (one)”) +‎ jꜣbt (“east”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘the beautiful (one) of the east’.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˌnafɾə ˈjoːβə/
(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfrɛt iɑbɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: nefret-iabet

Proper noun

f

a female given name, Nefertiabet

References

Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen‎, volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 201.11

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