r ḏr jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From r ḏr (“whole, entire; to the limit of”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind, will”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛr d͡ʒɛr ib/
  • Conventional anglicization: er djer ib

Preposition

1. just as (someone) wishes or pleases; according to the desire of [Late Period to Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “r-ḏr-jb (lemma ID 92520)”, 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, page 60.8
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 588.15