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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- boy, youth, young man
- (in the plural) crew, team
Inflection
Declension of jdw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jdw
Derived terms
Proper noun
m
- a male given name, Idu
Noun
m
- Alternative form of jꜣdw (“pestilence”)
Inflection
Declension of jdw (masculine)
Noun
m
- (hapax) a kind of bird or other flying animal
Usage notes
This word only appears in the name of a drug, ḥs n(j) jdw (literally “dung of the jdw-animal”). It is possible that this drug name is to be construed as a direct genitive construction rather than an indirect one, in which case the n would instead be part of the animal name, and this word would properly be read njdw.
Inflection
Declension of jdw (masculine)
References
- “jd.w (lemma ID 33780)” and “jdw (lemma ID 33940)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 151.8–151.11, 152.3
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 9, 34
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 238, 363.
