ḫntj-zḥ-nṯr

Egyptian

Etymology

ḫntj (“foremost, being in front of”) +‎ zḥ-nṯr (“the hall in which Anubis embalmed Osiris”, literally “divine booth”), thus ‘(the one) presiding over the divine booth’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛnti zɛh nɛt͡ʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenti-zeh-netjer

Proper noun

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1. an epithet of the god Anubis
2. an epithet of the god Osiris [Greco-Roman Period]
3. a priestly title [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 305.18–305.20, 465.3–465.4