bw nfr
Egyptian
editEtymology
editbw (“place, thing, -ness”) nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”).
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /buː nɛfɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: bu nefer
Noun
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- good, goodness, fineness, pleasantness
- good or pleasing things, what is good
- bread [Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of bw nfr
References
edit- “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