nfr-jr-kꜣ-rꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

nfr (pleasing, fine, good) + jr (perfective relative form of jrj (to do, to make)) + kꜣ (life-force, sustenance) + rꜥ (Ra), thus ‘the fine one whom the life-force of Ra made’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

ranfrir
kA

 m

  1. A throne name notably borne by Neferirkare Kakai, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty

Alternative forms

References

  • Nfr-jr-kꜣ-Rꜥw (lemma ID 99016)”, 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
  • Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 39
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 54, 181
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