nb-pt

Egyptian

Etymology

nb (“lord”) +‎ pt (“sky”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘lord of the sky’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb pɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: neb-pet

Proper noun

m

a very common epithet of various gods, originally of Horus of Behdet and Ra
an epithet for a dead king

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-pt

nb-pt

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 490.14–490.16
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 128

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