db

Uncertain. Takacs (1999) compares it to Proto-Kuliak *dọb (“rhinoceros”).^[1] Possibly related to db (“horn, tusk”); compare the possible relation between ḫꜣb (“hippopotamus”) and ḫꜣb (“to be bent”) (in reference to the animal’s tusks).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: deb

 m

1. hippopotamus
2. skin or fat of the hippopotamus, used medicinally

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of db  

jdb	dbj	djb	db
			abbreviation

Possibly a doublet of ꜥb (“horn”), according to the Rösslerian school of Egyptian comparison.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: deb

 m

1. horn (of oxen, gazelles, etc.)
2. tusk
3. hollowed-out horn for holding oil, used by Asiatics
4. horn of the moon
5. (by extension) wing or flank of an army
6. (by extension) prick, sting

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of db  

db	db
abbreviation; rare	abbreviation; rare

• Demotic: tp
  • Coptic: ⲧⲁⲡ (tap)

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 433.14–433.17, 434.3–434.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 310–311
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 2084–2085

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db (plural db-ok)

1. Abbreviation of darab (“piece, chunk”).

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db

1. Abbreviation of deadjabaste (“teaspoon”).