st-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From st (“seat, place, residence”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘residence of the heart/mind’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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1. favorite place
2. preference, desire, wish
3. fondness, affection, favor
4. preferred or favored person, favorite

Inflection

Declension of st-jb (feminine)

singular	st-jb
dual	stj-jb
plural	swt-jb

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of st-jb  

st-jb

Derived terms

• n-st-jb
• st-jb-rꜥ

 

References

• “s.t-jb (lemma ID 125150)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 4.3–4.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 206