bw nfr

Egyptian

Etymology

bw (“place, thing, -ness”) ‎ nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /buː nɛfɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: bu nefer

Noun

 m

1. good, goodness, fineness, pleasantness
2. good or pleasing things, what is good
3. bread [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bw nfr  

bw nfr	b nfr	b nfr	b nfr
	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
		in the sense ‘bread’	in the sense ‘bread’

References

• “bw-nfr (lemma ID 55220)” and “bw-nfr (lemma ID 55230)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 452.5
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 254.25–254.32
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 131