nbt-pr

Egyptian

Etymology

nbt (“lady”) +‎ pr (“house”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘lady of the house’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛbɛt pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: nebet-per

Noun

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1. a title, one of the few commonly held by women: a woman who manages a household estate; conventionally rendered as ‘mistress (or ‘lady’) of the house’ [since the Old Kingdom]
2. (in the plural) noble women collectively

Inflection

Declension of nbt-pr (feminine)

singular	nbt-pr
dual	nbtj-pr
plural	nbwt-pr

The plural is sometimes written with the second element pr marked with plural strokes () as well.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nbt-pr  

nbt-pr

References

• “nb.t-pr (lemma ID 82090)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 512.9–512.13
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 232
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 89, 129
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 35.