nb-ꜥnḫ

== Egyptian == === Etymology === nb (“lord, possessor”) +‎ ꜥnḫ (“life”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘possessor of life’. === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛb ɑːnx/ Conventional anglicization: neb-ankh === Noun === m dead person who has successfully completed the transition to the afterlife (and so become ‘living’), especially as an epithet for Osiris epithet for various gods ==== Inflection ==== === Noun === m sarcophagus ==== Inflection ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 199.11–199.14 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 228.13–228.14 Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 128