pr nfr

Egyptian

Etymology

pr (“house”) +‎ nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr nɛfɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: per nefer

Noun

 m

1. funerary workshop, mortuary, place where bodies are embalmed [since the Middle Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of pr nfr (masculine)

singular	pr nfr
dual	prwj nfrwj
plural	prw nfrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr nfr  

pr nfr	pr-nfr	pr-nfr

References

• “pr-nfr (lemma ID 60680)”, 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, page 517.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89