jꜥj jb

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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^[1], 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^[2], 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