jb

See also: JB

English

Noun

jb (usually uncountable, plural jbs)

  1. Initialism of jailbait.

Anagrams

Chinese

Pronunciation

Noun

jb

  1. Initialism of 雞巴／鸡巴 (jībā).

Egyptian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Afroasiatic *lib- (“heart”), cognate with Proto-Semitic *libb-[1] and Proto-Berber *ulβ.

Pronunciation
 

Noun
ib
Z1

 m

  1. heart
  2. mind
    • c. 1292-1189 BCE, (19th Dynasty), Papyrus Chester Beatty V, The Hymn to the Nile flood:[2][3]
      smn
      n      		 U32Y1U5
      a      		 tSwY1
      Z2      		 mibZ1ibZ1ibZ1r
      T      		 A1 B1
      Z2
      smn mꜣꜥt m jbw rmṯ […]
      Truth is fixed in the minds of men […]
  3. mental faculties
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 13–17:
      ia
      N35B      		 a
      t W      		 iim
      m      		 amwHrZ1DbaZ2
      k      		 ixY2wSbA2kwSdd
      t      		 A2k
      mddwA2k
      n      		 swt
      n      		 G7ib Z1
      k      		 ma
      k      		 wSbA2kD35
      n      		 nititA2
      jꜥ tw jmj mw ḥr ḏbꜥw.k jḫ wšb.k wšd.t(w).k mdw.k n nswt jb.k m-ꜥ.k wšb.k nn njtjt
      Wash yourself, put water on your fingers,
      so you might answer when you are addressed, speak to the king with your mind in your possession, and answer without stammering.
  4. intention, will
    • c. 1552 BCE, Kamose, Carnarvon Tablet I (Cairo JE 41790):
      ibZ1A1rn
      N42      		 mA24kmmt
      niwt      		 Ht
      D40      		 T14mWA14
      Z2ss
      jb.j r nḥm kmt ḥ(w)t ꜥꜣmw
      My intention is to save Egypt and smite the Asiatics.
  5. appetite, will or desire for gratification
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.8–1.9:
      irswrriA2kHn
      a      		 t
      x      		 wW22A1O43pa
      k      		 iwibZ1fHtp
      t      		 pwY1
      jr swrj.k ḥnꜥ tḫw šzp.k jw jb.f ḥtp.w
      If you drink with a drunkard, you should partake when his heart is satisfied.
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.11–1.12:
      xrrM6nDs
      n      		 HrZ1rd
      f      		 AG42Y1ibZ1
      imAAmiAmY1
      n      		 fkAhsE21A24rmwtt B1
      f
      ḫr (tw)r n(j) ḥr r dfꜣ jb jmꜣ n.f kꜣhs r mwt.f
      One who is averted of face against feeding the heart (i.e. one who doesn’t indulge himself), the harsh man has to be more kindly to him than his (own) mother.[4]
  6. emotional state
Inflection
Declension of jb (masculine)
singular jb
dual jbwj
plural jbw
Synonyms
Derived terms

Verb
ib
Z1

 2-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to wish, to intend (+ r: to wish to, to intend to)
  2. (transitive) to think, to suppose
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 57–59:
      ibE8kwA1wAAwmwp W
      n      		 M14wrr
      N36
      jb.kw wꜣw pw n(j) wꜣḏ-wr
      I thought, ‘It is a wave of the sea.’
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
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jb  
ibE8AA2
ibE8
jb jb

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun
ibE8A2A1

 m

  1. thirsty man
Inflection
Declension of jb (masculine)
singular jb
dual jbwj
plural jbw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jb  
ibE8mwA2
jb

References
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
  2. Helck, Wolfgang (1972) Der Text des “Nilhymnus”, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, Page 65
  3. The Hymn to the Nile flood at Digital Egypt for Universities
  4. The beginning of this passage, encompassing the glyphs
    xrrM6nDs
    , seems corrupt and has been emended in various ways. Gardiner takes it as an otherwise unattested word *ḫtr (“to be powerless”) and the entire passage as ḫtr.n ḥr r dfꜣ jb (“the face is powerless(?) over against one stolid(?)”). Allen restores it as ḫr twr, as given here, based on the determinatives (with the assumption that the scribe forgot a
    t
    ). Lichtheim, following Feder, reads ḫrr (“gentle/meek”) and considers dfꜣ-jb to mean something like ‘timidity, slowness’, reading the whole as ‘He who is gentle, even timid…’.
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