nẖnm

Egyptian

Etymology

n- +‎ ẖnm (“to unite with”), thus ‘reunion’ oil.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛçnɛm/
- Conventional anglicization: nekhnem

Noun

m

one of the seven sacred oils used in mortuary rituals, made of pine resin, wood pitch, and bitumen [since the Fifth Dynasty]

Alternative forms

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References

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 319.1–319.3
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 139
Kapiec, Katarzyna (2018) “The Sacred Scents: Examining the Connection Between the ꜥntjw and sfṯ in the Context of the Early Eighteenth Dynasty Temples” in Études et Travaux XXXI, pages 195–217

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