jbr
Egyptian
Etymology
Borrowing from a Semitic language. Compare Biblical Hebrew אַבִּיר (ʾabbī́r, “mighty, valiant”) (often used of stallions), or perhaps Ugaritic 𐎛𐎁𐎗 (ỉbr, “bull”) (= Arabic بَعِير (baʿīr)).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ibɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: iber
Noun
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- stallion [since the 18th Dynasty]
Inflection
Declension of jbr (masculine)
| singular | jbr |
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| dual | jbrwj |
| plural | jbrw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbr
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| jbꜣr | jbꜣjry | |||||||||||||||||
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References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 63.15
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 16
- Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 18–19