st-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From st (“seat, place, residence”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘residence of the heart/mind’.

Pronunciation

Noun

 f

  1. favorite place
  2. preference, desire, wish
  3. fondness, affection, favor
  4. preferred or favored person, favorite

Inflection

Declension of st-jb (feminine)
singular st-jb
dual stj-jb
plural swt-jb

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of st-jb  
st-jb

Derived terms

References

  • “s.t-jb (lemma ID 125150)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 4.3–4.6
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 206
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