nb-mꜣꜥt

Egyptian

Etymology

From nb (“lord, possessor”) +‎ mꜣꜥt (“righteousness, truth”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘possessor of righteousness/truth’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb mɑʔɑːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb-maat

Noun

 m

1. (literally) honest person, one who does what is right
2. epithet for various gods, especially Ptah
3. (in the plural) epithet for gods who pass judgement collectively
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 17–18:

     
     

     sḥww n.f ḏꜣḏꜣt mꜣꜥt psḏt nb-r-ḏr ḏs.f nbw-mꜣꜥt zmꜣyw jm.s mkḥꜣyw jsft snḏmw m wsḫt nt gbb r rdjt jꜣwt n nb.s (n)syt n mꜣꜥt.s n.f

     The Tribunal of Maat was convened for him: the Ennead, the Lord of All himself, and the possessors of righteousness who were united in it, who scorn wrongdoing, sitting in the hall of Geb to give the office to its owner and the kingship to the one to whom it justly belonged.

4. epithet for the king

Inflection

Declension of nb-mꜣꜥt (masculine)

singular	nb-mꜣꜥt
dual	nbwj-mꜣꜥt
plural	nbw-mꜣꜥt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb-mꜣꜥt  

nb-mꜣꜥt

Derived terms

• nb-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ
• nb-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ-mr-jmn
• nb-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ-nḫt.w
• nb-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ-ẖnm-ptḥ
• nb-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ-tjt-jmn
• nb-mꜣꜥt-snfr-wj

 

Proper noun

 m

1. A serekh name notably borne by Sneferu, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty
2. A Two Ladies name notably borne by Sneferu, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty

References

• “nb-mꜣꜥ.t (lemma ID 850580)”, 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
• “nb-Mꜣꜥ.t (lemma ID 82110)”, 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
• “Nb-Mꜣꜥ.t (lemma ID 861804)”, 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
• “nb.w-mꜣꜥ.t (lemma ID 860262)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[4], 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
• “Nb-mꜣꜥ.t (lemma ID 400275)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[5], 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^[6], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 19.14–19.17, 228.12
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 35
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52, 178