n-st-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From n(j) (“of, belonging to”) +‎ st-jb (“favorite place, preference, favor”), literally “(one) belonging to the favor of…’”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛn sɛt ib/
  • Conventional anglicization: en-set-ib

Noun

 m

1. favored person, favorite, darling

   Synonym: nj-jb

Inflection

Declension of n-st-jb (masculine)

singular	n-st-jb
dual	nwj-st-jb
plural	nw-st-jb

References

• “n.j-s.t-jb (lemma ID 79900)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 60.3
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 196
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[4], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 4.6