jwf

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjuwfVw//ˈjuwfVw//ˈʔuʔfə//ʔøʔf/

Noun

iwf
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 m

  1. flesh
  2. (as food) meat, including fish meat
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:
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      (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.
  3. body
  4. epithet of the god Ra when he passes through the afterworld at night [Theban royal tombs]
  5. (with following genitive) body, corpse (of some particular god) [Theban royal tombs]

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: jwf
    • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉϥ (ef)
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁϥ (af)
    • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲁϥ (aaf)
    • Coptic Dialect K: ⲉϥ (ef)
    • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉϥ (ef)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲁϥ (aaf), ⲁϥ (af)

References

  • jwf (lemma ID 22520)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • jwf (lemma ID 500729)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, 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, page 13
  • 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.
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