Basic Old Nubian Dictionary

This is an Old Nubian-English-Arabic Dictionary. You can easily search for Old Nubian words and their English and Arabic equivalents.

This app was created by Mai Bakr.

Old Nubian (also called Old Nobiin) is an extinct Nubian language, attested in writing from the 8th to the 15th century AD. It is ancestral to modern-day Nobiin and closely related to Dongolawi and Kenzi. It was used throughout the kingdom of Makuria, including the eparchy of Nobatia. The language is preserved in more than a hundred pages of documents and inscriptions, both of a religious nature (homilies, prayers, hagiographies, psalms, lectionaries), and related to the state and private life (legal documents, letters), written using the Old Nubian Alphabet, itself an adaptation of the Coptic alphabet.

Main References:

1- Browne, G. M. (1996). Old Nubian Dictionary. Peeters Pub & Booksellers.

2- Smagina, E. (2017b). The old Nubian language. punctum books.

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