jdw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. boy, youth, young man
2. (in the plural) crew, team

Inflection

Declension of jdw (masculine)

singular	jdw
dual	jdwwj
plural	jdww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jdw  

jꜣdw	jꜣdw

Derived terms

• nfr-jdww

Proper noun

 m

1. a male given name, Idu

Noun

 m

1. alternative form of jꜣdw (“pestilence”)

Inflection

Declension of jdw (masculine)

singular	jdw
dual	jdwwj
plural	jdww

Noun

 m

1. (hapax legomenon) a kind of bird or other flying animal [Medical papyri]

Usage notes

This word only appears in the name of a drug, ḥs n(j) jdw (literally “dung of the jdw-animal”). It is possible that this drug name is to be construed as a direct genitive construction rather than an indirect one, in which case the n would instead be part of the animal name, and this word would properly be read njdw.

Inflection

Declension of jdw (masculine)

singular	jdw
dual	jdwwj
plural	jdww

References

• “jd.w (lemma ID 33780)” and “jdw (lemma ID 33940)”, 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 151.8–151.11, 152.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 9, 34
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 238, 363.