bw nfr

Egyptian

Etymology

bw (“place, thing, -ness”) +‎ nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”).

Pronunciation

Noun
bwnfrf
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 m

  1. good, goodness, fineness, pleasantness
  2. good or pleasing things, what is good
  3. bread [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bw nfr  
bwnfr
bnfr
bnfrX4
Z2
bnfrX4
bw nfr b nfr b nfr b nfr
[New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
in the sense ‘bread’ in the sense ‘bread’

References
  • “bw-nfr (lemma ID 55220)”, 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
  • “bw-nfr (lemma ID 55230)”, 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, page 452.5
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 254.25–254.32
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 131
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