nẖnm

Egyptian

Etymology

n- +‎ ẖnm (“to unite with”), thus ‘reunion’ oil.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛçnɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: nekhnem

Noun

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1. one of the seven sacred oils used in mortuary rituals, made of pine resin, wood pitch, and bitumen [since the Fifth Dynasty]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nẖnm  

nšnm	nẖnm
[Old Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 319.1–319.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 139
• Kapiec, Katarzyna (2018) “The Sacred Scents: Examining the Connection Between the ꜥntjw and sfṯ in the Context of the Early Eighteenth Dynasty Temples” in Études et Travaux XXXI, pages 195–217