zꜣb
Egyptian
editEtymology
editPossibly from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *ǯiʔib- (“beast of prey”). Compare Hebrew זְאֵב (zǝʾēḇ) and Arabic ذِئْب (ḏiʔb) from Proto-Semitic *ḏiʔb- (“wolf”), as well as Chadic ǯib- “civet”.
Pronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈziːʀib/ → /ˈsiːʀib/ → /ˈsiːʔəb/ → /ˈsiːʔəβ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɑb/
- Conventional anglicization: zab
Noun
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Noun
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- an official title of uncertain rank
Inflection
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References
edit- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 209
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 293.