bw-nb

Egyptian

Etymology

bw (“place, thing, -ness”) +‎ nb (“every”).

Pronunciation

Noun
bwnbA1B1Z3

 m

  1. everyone [since the Middle Kingdom]
    Synonym: ḥr-nb
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 21:
      bwnb
      x
      n
      t      		 S
      fnD
      Y1      		 ib
      Z2ss      		 nDmHAt
      ib Z2ss      		 Xr
      r      		 r
      S      		 w&t
      bw-nb ḫntš(.w) jbw nḏm(.w) ḥꜣtjw ẖr ršwt
      Everybody is glad, minds are sweet, hearts are in joy.
  2. the masses, the common people

Usage notes

This word is sometimes treated as a plural.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bw-nb  
bwnb
bZ1
nb
bnb
bnbA1B1Z3
bwnbwA1B1Z3
bA1B1Z3nb
W Z2ss
bw-nb b-nb b-nb b-nb bw-nbw b-nbw
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period]

References
  • “bw-nb (lemma ID 55210)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 452.6–452.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 81
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