jp

See also: JP, .jp, and J.P.

Egyptian

(in the sense ‘to count’): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jaːp/ → /jaːp/ → /ʔaːp/ → /ʔoːp/

2-lit.

(transitive) to count
(transitive) to assess as complete by counting
(transitive) to examine, to check, to evaluate, to review (someone or something)
(transitive) to take account of, to take heed of
(transitive) to account, to assess, to recognize, to consider (something) (+ r: as)
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 19:
  
  jp n.f tꜣ r ẖrt.f pt tꜣ ẖr st ḥr.f
  The land was accounted as his possession, and the sky and the land were under his care.
(transitive) to fully account for, collect, or set in order (the bones of the dead)
(transitive) to recognize (someone) (+ m: as)
(transitive) to respect, to esteem (someone)
(transitive) to allot, to assign, to apportion (+ n: to)
(transitive, with r) to charge (something) against (someone), to hold (someone) liable for something
(transitive) to detail (someone) for work (+ r or m: for (some particular work))
(transitive) to transfer (someone) (+ m: from; + r: to)
(transitive) to impose, to assess, to exact (taxes, dues, revenues collected, etc.) (+ r: from)
(transitive, with m-ꜥ) to claim (something) from (someone)
(intransitive, of people) to assemble, to muster, to collect together
(intransitive, often of the heart/mind) to be(come) shrewd, judicious, discerning, circumspect (+ m: in)

Conjugation of jp (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: jp, geminated stem: jpp

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
jp	jpw, jp	jpt	jp, j.jp	jp, j.jp

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
jp	ḥr jp	m jp	r jp

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jp.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	jp	active + .tj¹, .tw²	jp	jpp, jppj⁶, jp², jpw^{2 5}, jpy^{2 5}
imperfective	j.jp¹, jp, jpy, jpw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	j.jp¹, j.jpw^{1 5}, jp, jpj⁶, jpy⁶	jp, jpw⁵
prospective	jp, jptj⁷	—	jptj⁴, jpt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jp

jp

jpj

[21st Dynasty]

[Greco-Roman Period]

in hieratic

m

accounting
- c. 1944 BCE, (year 17 of the reign of Senusret I), Stela of Mentuwoser (MMA 12.184), lines 7–8:
  
  jw jp m-ꜥ.j m pr-nswt nhm n.j dwꜣ-nṯr n.j
  The accounting was in my charge in the royal palace, and there was acclaim for me and thanking for me.
regard, esteem, opinion or assessment of someone
- c. 1479–1425 BCE, (reign of Thutmose III), tomb autobiography of Rekhmire (TT100), lines 3–4:
  
  …
  
  ḏd.f jnk sꜥḥ snnw n nswt jfdnw n wp-rḥwj ḫnt(j) st m wꜥꜥw ḥs[w] ṯnw wn[wt …] tp(j)-ꜥ m jp rḫyt
  He says: I am a dignitary second to the king, fourth to the Judge of the Two Companions (Thoth, judge of Horus and Set), the one foremost of position in private audience, who is praised at each hour, […] who stands ahead in the esteem of the commoners.

Declension of jp (masculine)

See under the verb above.

m

Possibly this word should be identified with the words above in the sense of “an accounting”.

m

Declension of jp (masculine)

“jp (lemma ID 24070)”, “jp (lemma ID 859124)”, and “jp (lemma ID 24080)”, 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 66.1–66.21, 67.3–67.4
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 16
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 162, 251.