nbs

== Translingual == === Etymology === Abbreviation of English Namibian Sign Language. === Symbol === nbs (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Namibian Sign Language. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Namibian Sign Language terms == Egyptian == === Etymology === Put by Koehler-Baumgartner to Arabic بَلَس (balas, “fig”) / Ge'ez በለስ (bäläs, “fig; sycomore”); because the Egyptian word has been glossed to mean sycomore, but this is not done so anymore. Instead the sycomore is in Egyptian nht, and Arabic has a similar word for the Christ’s thorn jujube in نَبِق (nabiq). === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛbɛs/ Conventional anglicization: nebes === Noun === m Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) timber of the Christ’s thorn jujube fruit of the Christ’s thorn jujube ==== Inflection ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Old Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩⲃⲥ (noubs) === References === Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 245.10–246.2 Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 130 Valbelle, Dominique (2014), “Le jujubier dans la toponymie nilotique”, in Orientalia‎[2], volume 83, number 1, pages 106–123