nbs

Abbreviation of English Namibian Sign Language.

nbs

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Namibian Sign Language.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Namibian Sign Language terms

Put by Koehler-Baumgartner to Arabic بَلَس (balas, “fig”) / Ge'ez በለስ (bäläs, “fig; sycomore”); because the Egyptian word has been glossed to mean sycomore, but this is not done so anymore. Instead the sycomore is in Egyptian nht, and Arabic has a similar word for the Christ’s thorn jujube in نَبِق (nabiq).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛbɛs/
  • Conventional anglicization: nebes

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1. Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi)
2. timber of the Christ’s thorn jujube
3. fruit of the Christ’s thorn jujube

• Old Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩⲃⲥ (noubs)

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 245.10–246.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 130
• Valbelle, Dominique (2014), “Le jujubier dans la toponymie nilotique”, in Orientalia‎^[2], volume 83, number 1, pages 106–123