bw-nb
Egyptian
editEtymology
editbw (“place, thing, -ness”) + nb (“every”).
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /buː nɛb/
- Conventional anglicization: bu-neb
Noun
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- everyone [since the Middle Kingdom]
- Synonym: ḥr-nb
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 21:
- bw-nb ḫntš(.w) jbw nḏm(.w) ḥꜣtjw ẖr ršwt
- Everybody is glad, minds are sweet, hearts are in joy.
- the masses, the common people
Usage notes
editThis word is sometimes treated as a plural.
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of bw-nb
References
edit- “bw-nb (lemma ID 55210)”, 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
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 452.6–452.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 81