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Egyptian
Etymology
From nj (“of, belonging to”) + jb (“heart, mind”), thus ‘(he who is) belonging to the heart/mind’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- favored person, favorite, darling
- Synonym: n-st-jb
Inflection
Declension of nj-jb (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nj-jb
References
- “n.j-jb (lemma ID 79880)”, 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, page 60.2