bnw

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛnuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: benu

 m

1. the Bennu or phoenix, a divine being and a bird into which the dead could transform.
   • c. 1478 BCE – 1397 BCE, Book of the Dead of Nu (pLondon British Museum EA10477) chapter 64, line 23:

     j(w)j.n.j m ḫm r jwnw r rḏj.t rḫ bnw ḫrt dwꜣt

     I have come from Letopolis to Heliopolis to let the phoenix know of the conditions of the Afterworld.

• → Ancient Greek: φοῖνιξ (phoînix)
  • → Latin: phoenix

 m

1. Alternative form of bnr (“date (fruit)”)

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN