bw-nb

bw (“place, thing, -ness”) +‎ nb (“every”).

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

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1. everyone [since the Middle Kingdom]

   Synonym: ḥr-nb

   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 21:

     bw-nb ḫntš(.w) jbw nḏm(.w) ḥꜣtjw ẖr ršwt

     Everybody is glad, minds are sweet, hearts are in joy.

2. the masses

This word is sometimes treated as a plural.

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 452.6–452.8
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 81