st-jb

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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stt
ib

 f

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

Inflection

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Derived terms

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References

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  • 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