pr-nbw

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ nbw (“gold”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘house of gold’.

Pronunciation

Noun
pr
Z1		 nbw
N33A

 m

  1. treasury

Inflection
Declension of pr-nbw (masculine)
singular pr-nbw
dual prwj-nbw
plural prw-nbw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-nbw  
prnbw
N33A
pr
n		 nbw
N33A
pr-nbw pr n nbw
[New Kingdom]

References
  • “pr-nbw (lemma ID 60660)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 517.7–517.9
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89
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