jb

English

Noun

jb (plural jbs)

1. Initialism of jailbait.

Anagrams

• B.J., BJ, bj

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Egyptian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Afroasiatic *lib (“heart”), cognate with Proto-Semitic *libb-.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jib/ → /jib/ → /ʔep/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /jib/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /jib/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔep/

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

Noun

 m

1. heart
2. mind
   • Papyrus Chester Beatty V, The Hymn to the Nile flood [1] :

     smn mꜣꜥt m jbw rmṯ […]

     Truth is fixed in the minds of men […]

3. intention
   • c. 1552 BCE Kamose, Carnarvon Tablet I (Cairo JE 41790):

     jb.j r nḥm kmt ḥ(w)t ꜥꜣmw

     My intention is to save Egypt and smite the Asiatics.

4. emotional state

Inflection

Declension of jb (masculine)

singular	jb
dual	jbwj
plural	jbw

Synonyms

• (heart, mind): ḥꜣtj

Derived terms

• ꜣwj-jb
• ꜣwt-jb
• ꜣḫ jb
• jmj jb
• ꜥwn-jb
• ꜥm jb
• ꜥḏ-jb
• wꜣḥ jb
• wbꜣ jb
• wnf jb
• n jb n (“for the sake of”)
• nfr jb
• r-jb
• rḏj jb m sꜣ (“be concerned about”)
• rḏj jb ḫnt (“focus on”)
• rḏj m jb (“work out”)
• ḥrj jb
• ḥr jb
• swḏꜣ jb
• st-jb
• stẖ-pr-jb.sn

 

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to wish, to intend (+ r: to wish to, to intend to)
2. (transitive) to think, to suppose

Inflection

Conjugation of jb (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: jb, geminated stem: jbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jb	jbw, jb	jbt	jb, j.jb	jb, j.jb

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jb	ḥr jb	m jb	r jb

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jb.n	jbw, jb	consecutive	jb.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	jbt
perfective3	jb	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	jb.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	jb, j.jb1	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	jb	jbb	potentialis1	jb.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	jb, j.jb1	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jb.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	jb	active + .tj1, .tw2	jb	jbb, jbbj6, jb2, jbw2 5, jby2 5
imperfective	j.jb1, jb, jby, jbw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	j.jb1, j.jbw1 5, jb, jbj6, jby6	jb, jbw5
prospective	jb, jbtj7	—	jbtj4, jbt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jb  

jb	jb

Etymology 2

perfective active participle of jbj (“to be(come) thirsty”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. thirsty man

Inflection

Declension of jb (masculine)

singular	jb
dual	jbwj
plural	jbw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jb  

jb

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 59.10–60.13, 61.11, 61.15
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 81, 166, 388, 456.