nfrt
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈnafɾat/ → /ˈnafɾaʔ/ → /ˈnafɾa/ → /ˈnafɾə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛfɛrɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: neferet
Adjective
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- feminine singular of nfr
- 12th Dynasty, coffin of Nakhtankh, British Museum EA 35285:
- […] qrst nfrt m jz.f nfr n ẖrt-nṯr […]
- […] a good burial in his wonderful tomb of the necropolis […]
- 12th Dynasty, coffin of Nakhtankh, British Museum EA 35285:
Noun
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- something pleasing, beautiful, or good; good thing, fine thing
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 115–116:
- nn ntt nn st m ẖnw.f jw.f mḥ(.w) ẖr nfrwt nbt
- There isn’t a thing that isn’t inside it, and it is full of all fine things.
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 1.6:
- jw nfrt jdn bw nfr jw nh(j) n(j) ktt jdn wr
- For a good thing serves for goodness, for a bit of a little thing serves for a big thing.
Inflection
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Descendants
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- beautiful, fine, or good woman
- epithet for various goddesses
- maiden, lass; nubile or marriageable young woman
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Derived terms
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- a female given name, Nofret
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References
edit- “nfr.t (lemma ID 83680)”, 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
- “nfr.t (lemma ID 83660)”, 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
- “nfr.t (lemma ID 83670)”, 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
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[4], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 258.4–258.10, 259.3–259.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 131–132
- Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen[5], volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 201.10
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 42