jwꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: iua

Noun

 m

1. ox, especially as a sacrificial animal
2. (in the plural) long-horned cattle in contrast to wnḏw (“short-horned cattle”)
3. (with following genitive of an antelope, gazelle, ibex, etc.) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. male animal

Inflection

Declension of jwꜣ (masculine)

singular	jwꜣ
dual	jwꜣwj
plural	jwꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜣ  

jwꜣ	jwꜣ	jw
		[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• jwꜣt

 

Noun

 m

1. beef

Inflection

Declension of jwꜣ (masculine)

singular	jwꜣ
dual	jwꜣwj
plural	jwꜣw

References

• “jwꜣ (lemma ID 22160)”, 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 49.9–49.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 12
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 111.