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nb

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Norwegian Bokmål.

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1. (cricket) Initialism of no ball.

nb

1. Initialism of nota bene.

nb (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of NB: initialism of non-binary.

• B.N., Bn, Bn., bn, bn.

• IPA^(key): /niːβ/

1. (definite) all, every
2. (indefinite) any

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ (niben)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)

• IPA^(key): /neːβ/

 m

1. lord

• Coptic: ⲛⲏⲃ (nēb) (Bohairic, Old Coptic)

• IPA^(key): /ˈneːβə/

 f

1. mistress, lady (woman with authority over something)

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 212–213
• Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic‎, third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 7

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb

1. all, every
2. every other
3. all sorts of, all kinds of
4. (especially in negated clauses) any

In the Pyramid Texts of Unas, among certain other Old Egyptian texts, nb is usually not inflected by gender and number but invariably appears as nb. Even within these texts, however, inflected forms sporadically appear.[1]

In Late Egyptian, as all forms collapsed together with the masculine singular, the usual writing of the word came to follow the old feminine singular,

(nbt).

• Demotic: (nb)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ (niben)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲃⲓ (nibi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲓⲙ (nim)

Ehret attempts to derive this term from a Proto-Afroasiatic *ruub- (“to send”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb

 m

1. lord, master, ruler (of a place or people)
   • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Nakhti, British Museum EA 143:

     wsjr nb ḏdw nṯr ꜥꜣ […]

     Osiris, Lord of Djedu, the great god […]

   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:

     jwyt zb(.w) sjw(w) rw.w tꜣ m ḥtpw ẖr nb.f

     Wrongdoing has gone, the Slanderer has departed, and the land is in peace under its lord.

2. (without following genitive noun, often as a term of address) master, superior
3. master (of a span of time)
4. owner, possessor, bearer (of an object)
5. possessor (of an abstract quality)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 23–24:

     smn mꜣꜥt n nb.s rdjw sꜣ r jsft

     Righteousness has been established for its possessor, and the back is turned on wrong.

6. an epithet of the king
7. an epithet of various gods, especially Osiris

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb  

nb	nb	nb	nb	nbw	nb	nb	nbt	nb	nb
					[since the Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]	[Late Period]	[Late and Greco- Roman Periods]	[Late and Greco- Roman Periods]
	in reference to a person	in reference to the king	in reference to a king or god	rare	common only in the Old Kingdom

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nb  

nb	nb	nb	nbw	nb	nb	nb
[since the New Kingdom]	[since the New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation	abbrevation

By the Late Period, the usual writing of the word came to follow the old feminine equivalent nbt (“lady, mistress”), as the two words merged into one.

• Demotic: (nb)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲏⲃ (nēb)
  • Old Coptic: ⲛⲏⲃ (nēb)

(reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnaβʔə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: neb

 m

1. (hapax) sin, damage, impurity [Greco-Roman Period]

• Demotic: ⁠⁠ (nby), ⁠⁠⁠ (nbe.t)
  • Coptic: ⲛⲟⲃⲉ (nobe) – Sahidic, ⲛⲟⲃⲓ (nobi) – Bohairic, ⲛⲁⲃⲉ (nabe) – Akhmimic, Lycopolitan, ⲛⲁⲃⲓ (nabi) – Fayyumic, ⲛⲁϥⲓ (nafi) – Fayyumic

nb

1. Alternative transliteration of nbw (“gold”).

• “nb (lemma ID 81660)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
• “nb (lemma ID 81650)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
• “nbw (lemma ID 82730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 227.5–230.14, 234.3–236.5
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 128–129
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 896–897, 903
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 106
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 42