nwꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nuːɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: nua

Noun

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1. ‘adze of Wepwawet’, an instrument used in the Opening of the Mouth ritual

Inflection

Declension of nwꜣ (masculine)

singular	nwꜣ
dual	nwꜣwj
plural	nwꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nwꜣ  

nwꜣ	nwꜣ	nwꜣ
[Pyramid Texts]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

References

• “nwꜣ (lemma ID 81180)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 221.22, 222.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 127