jbj

Translingual

Symbol

jbj

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Arandai.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Arandai terms

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Perhaps compare Arabic لَابَ (lāba).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbit/ → /ˈjiːbiʔ/ → /ˈʔiːba/ → /ˈʔiːβə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiːba/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiːβə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibi/
  • Conventional anglicization: ibi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) thirsty, to thirst
2. (transitive) to thirst for, to thirst after
3. (intransitive, figuratively, of land) to be(come) barren, dry, parched

Inflection

Conjugation of jbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: jb, geminated stem: jbb

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jbt, jbj jbw, jb jbt, jbwt, jbyt jb jb, jby ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jb8, jbb8 ḥr jbt, ḥr jbj m jbt, m jbj r jbt, r jbj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect jb.n jbw, jb, jby consecutive jb.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative jbt, jbyt perfective3 jb active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 jb.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective jb, jby active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 jbw, jb, jby jbw, jb, jby potentialis1 jb.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive jb, jby active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect jb.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective jbw1, jby, jb active + .tj1, .tw2 jb jby, jb imperfective jbb, jbby, jbbw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 jbb, jbbj6, jbby6 jbb, jbbw5 prospective jbw1, jby, jb, jbtj7 — jbwtj1 4, 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. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbj  

jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

• jb (“thirsty man”)
• jbt

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜣby, jby
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲃⲉ (eibe), (stative) ⲁⲃⲉ (abe )
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲃⲓ (ibi), (stative) ⲟⲃⲓ (obi )
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓⲃⲓ (ibi), (stative) ⲁⲃⲓ (abi )
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉⲓⲃⲉ (eibe), (stative) ⲁⲃⲉ (abe )
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲃⲉ (eibe), (stative) ⲟⲃⲉ (obe )

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibi/
  • Conventional anglicization: ibi

Noun

 m

1. alternative form of jbr (“labdanum^?”)

References

• “jbi̯ (lemma ID 23640)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 61.8–61.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 15
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 219, 456.