nbt (“lady”) + pr (“house”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘lady of the house’.
f
- a title, one of the few commonly held by women: a woman who manages a household estate; conventionally rendered as ‘mistress (or ‘lady’) of the house’ [since the Old Kingdom]
- (in the plural) noble women collectively
Declension of nbt-pr (feminine)
The plural is sometimes written with the second element
pr marked with plural strokes (
) as well.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nbt-pr
- “nb.t-pr (lemma ID 82090)”, 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 512.9–512.13
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 232
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 89, 129
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 35.
