nfr-kꜣ-rꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”) +‎ kꜣ (“ka”) +‎ rꜥ (“Ra”), thus literally ‘the fine (one) of the ka of Ra’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfɛr kɑ rɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: nefer-ka-ra

Proper noun

m

a male given name, Neferkare or Neferkara
A throne name notably borne by Pepi II Neferkare, a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty

References

“Nfr-kꜣ-Rꜥw (lemma ID 400330)”, 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
Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 30, 43
von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 48, 57, 174, 185

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