jꜥb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑːb/
  • Conventional anglicization: iab

Verb

 3-lit. or 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to unite, to put together (the limbs or bones of a dead person or Osiris)
2. (transitive, in the stative) to be collected, assembled, to be all together (+ ḥnꜥ: to be united with)
3. (intransitive or reflexive) to unify, to unite, to assemble (+ ḥnꜥ: with)
4. (transitive or reflexive with n) to join (someone)
5. (transitive) to present (offerings or gifts) (+ n: to (someone))
6. (transitive) to give a gift to (someone) (+ m or ẖr: of (something))

Inflection

In the Old Kingdom, this verb conjugated as a strong triliteral verb:

Since the Middle Kingdom, it instead became a third weak verb:

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥb  

jꜥb	jꜥb	jꜥb	jꜥb	ꜥb
				in hieratic

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥb  

jꜥb	jꜥb	jꜥb	ꜥb	ꜥb	ꜥb	ꜥbꜣ

Derived terms

• jꜥb ẖꜣt
• ꜥb ḫt
• m ꜥb

Noun

 m

1. bowl, especially a small bowl used for incense (attached to a censer’s handle) or a scribe’s water bowl

Inflection

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥb  

ꜥꜥb	ꜣꜥꜥbw
	in hieratic

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to rake together and heap up (grain) with a pitchfork

Inflection

Derived terms

• ꜥbwt

References

• “jꜥb (lemma ID 21680)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “jꜥb (lemma ID 21670)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “jꜥb (lemma ID 21660)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 40.8–41.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 10–11, 38
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 455.