nb-kꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

nb (“lord, possessor”) +‎ kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘possessor of life-force/sustenance’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb kɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb-ka

Proper noun

 m

1. A throne name notably borne by Nebka, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-kꜣ  

nb-kꜣ

References

• “Nb-kꜣ (lemma ID 853626)”, 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
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 33
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 50, 176