English Explanatory Dictionary

Nephthys

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Set and sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, worshiped as a protective goddess and nurse of the pharaoh and associated with funerary rites and the transition from life to death.

Pronunciation

/ˈnɛfθɪs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Nephthys.wav

Word forms

Nephthys

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νέφθυς (Néphthus), from Egyptian nbt-ḥwt, O9 t:H8

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