nj-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From nj (“of, belonging to”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”), thus ‘(he who is) belonging to the heart/mind’.

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. favored person, favorite, darling
    Synonym: n-st-jb

Inflection

Declension of nj-jb (masculine)
singular nj-jb
dual njwj-jb, nwj-jb
plural njw-jb, nw-jb

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nj-jb  
n-jb

References

  • “n.j-jb (lemma ID 79880)”, 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 60.2
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