jkn

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ikɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: iken

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to scoop out, to scoop up, to draw (water)
2. (transitive) to dig up (land)
3. (transitive) to dig out (a hole)

 m

1. cup, scoop, small bowl
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.5–1.6:

     
     

     jw jkn n(j) mw ꜥḫm.f jbt jw mḥ{t}⟨w⟩ r(ꜣ) m šww smn.f jb

     For a cup of water quenches thirst, for a mouthful of šww-herbs makes the heart firm.

Faulkner identifies this word with the later (18th Dynasty) term jkꜣnꜣ (“a kind of large vessel or jar”), but Hoch argues they may not be identical, as they seem to refer to vessels of different sizes; Hoch argues that the latter term is a Semitic loanword rather than Egyptian in origin.

Wilson suggests this word is a metathesized form of earlier jnk (“to hold”) ~ ꜥnk, in turn perhaps a development from jnq (“to embrace”).

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to seize, to take hold of

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jkn  

jknw

• “jkn (lemma ID 32610)”, “jkn (lemma ID 854493)”, and “jkn (lemma ID 32600)”, 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 139.18–140.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 32
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 218
• van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 56
• Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 42–43
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 235.

jkn

1. Abbreviation of jonkun (“of somebody, somebody's”).

• This abbreviation is chiefly used in dictionaries.

• jk (abbr. of "jokin")
• jku (abbr. of "joku")

• jnk