jmj jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”), literally “one who/that which is in the heart/mind”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi ib/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi ib

Noun

 m

1. favorite or close confidante
2. understanding, intellect, mind

Inflection

Declension of jmj jb (masculine)

singular	jmj jb
dual	jmjwj jb, jmwj jb
plural	jmjw jb, jmw jb

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj jb  

jmj jb	jmj jb

References

• “jm.j-jb (lemma ID 25250)”, “jm.j-jb (lemma ID 882344)”, and “jm.j-jb (lemma ID 25260)”, 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, pages 72.18–72.19
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 62
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 150.