nfrt-jꜣbt

Egyptian

Etymology

nfrt (“beautiful (one)”) +‎ jꜣbt (“east”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘the beautiful (one) of the east’.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˌnafɾə ˈjoːβə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfrɛt iɑbɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: nefret-iabet

Proper noun

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1. a female given name, Nefertiabet

References

• Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen‎^[1], volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 201.11