jwf
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjuwfVw/ → /ˈjuwfVw/ → /ˈʔuʔfə/ → /ʔøʔf/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːf/
- Conventional anglicization: iuf
Noun
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- flesh
- (as food) meat, including fish meat
― j(w)f n(j) ḥꜣt ― breast meat
― ḥꜣt j(w)f ― breast meat
― j(w)f n(j) pḥwj ― meat from the hindquarters; ham
― wr n(j) j(w)f ― large piece or quantity of meat
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:
- (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k
- Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you.
- body
- epithet of the god Ra when he passes through the afterworld at night [Theban royal tombs]
- (with following genitive) body, corpse (of some particular god) [Theban royal tombs]
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of jwf
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Demotic: jwf
References
edit- “jwf (lemma ID 22520)” and “jwf (lemma ID 500729)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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���[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 51.14–52.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 13, 17
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 279, 378.