Gender not specified. As Łajtar and van der Vliet noted, the meaning of the word is uncertain: it occurs in the phrase ⲁⲡ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲑⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍, which can mean both 'son of Apk( )' and 'thegna of Apk( )'. In the former case Apk( ) is an anthroponym, in the latter a toponym.