nfrt
Egyptian edit
Pronunciation edit
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈnafɾat/ → /ˈnafɾaʔ/ → /ˈnafɾa/ → /ˈnafɾə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛfɛrɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: neferet
Adjective edit
|
- feminine singular of nfr
- 12th Dynasty, coffin of Nakhtankh, British Museum EA 35285:
- […] qrst nfrt m jz.f nfr n ẖrt-nṯr […]
- […] a good burial in his wonderful tomb of the necropolis […]
- 12th Dynasty, coffin of Nakhtankh, British Museum EA 35285:
Noun edit
|
f
- something pleasing, beautiful, or good; good thing, fine thing
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 115–116:
- nn ntt nn st m ẖnw.f jw.f mḥ(.w) ẖr nfrwt nbt
- There isn’t a thing that isn’t inside it, and it is full of all fine things.
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 1.6:
- jw nfrt jdn bw nfr jw nh(j) n(j) ktt jdn wr
- For a good thing serves for goodness, for a bit of a little thing serves for a big thing.
Inflection edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfrt
|
|
| ||||||||||
nfrt | nfrt | nfrt | ||||||||||
[Old Kingdom] |
Descendants edit
Noun edit
|
f
- beautiful, fine, or good woman
- epithet for various goddesses
- maiden, lass; nubile or marriageable young woman
Inflection edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfrt
|
|
|
|
| |||||||||||||||||
nfrt | nfrt | nfrt | nfrt | nfrt | |||||||||||||||||
[Old Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
Derived terms edit
Proper noun edit
|
f
- a female given name, Nofret
Alternative forms edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfrt
|
| ||||||
nfrt | nfrt |
References edit
- “nfr.t (lemma ID 83680)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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
- “nfr.t (lemma ID 83660)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], 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
- “nfr.t (lemma ID 83670)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[3], 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[4], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 258.4–258.10, 259.3–259.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 131–132
- Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen[5], volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 201.10
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 42