zꜣ-nḫt

See also: zꜣ-nht

Egyptian

Etymology

zꜣ (“protector”) +‎ nḫt (“strong, victorious”), thus ‘strong/victorious protector’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɑ nɛxɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: za-nakht

Proper noun

 m

1. A serekh name notably borne by Sanakht, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty

References

• “Zꜣ-nḫt.w (lemma ID 400472)”, 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
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 33
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 51, 177