jww-ḥrjw-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

jww (“islands”) +‎ ḥrjw jb (“being in the midst”, literally “being upon the heart”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

 m pl

  1. (plural only) the stretches of alluvial land in the Nile delta separated by the arms of the river [Kushite and Greco-Roman Periods]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jww-ḥrjw-jb  







jww ḥrjw jb rww ḥrjw jb rww ḥrjw jb
[Kushite Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

References

  • “Jw.w-ḥr.jw-jb (lemma ID 852714)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 47.10
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 408.9
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