jꜥj jb

Egyptian

Etymology

jꜥj (to wash) + jb (heart, mind), thus ‘to wash the heart/mind’.

Pronunciation

Verb



 compound

  1. to be(come) happy, to rejoice
  2. (with following genitive) to make (someone) happy, to satisfy (someone)
  3. to satisfy oneself by giving vent to one’s desires: to slake one’s ardor, to take vengeance on one’s enemies, etc.

References

  • jꜥi̯ (jb) (lemma ID 21580)”, 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 39.9–39.11
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
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