jb

See also: JB

English

Noun

jb (usually uncountable, plural jbs)

Initialism of jailbait.

Anagrams

B.J., BJ, bj

Chinese

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jībā

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄅㄚ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jībā
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄅㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiba
  - Wade–Giles: chi¹-pa¹
  - Yale: jī-bā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiba
  - Palladius: цзиба (cziba)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵/

Noun

jb

Initialism of 雞巴 (jībā).

Egyptian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jib/ → /jib/ → /ʔep/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ib/
- Conventional anglicization: ib

Noun

m

heart
mind
- c. 1292-1189 BCE, (19th Dynasty), Papyrus Chester Beatty V, The Hymn to the Nile flood:[2][3]
  
  smn mꜣꜥt m jbw rmṯ […]
  Truth is fixed in the minds of men […]
mental faculties
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 13–17:
  
  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.
intention, will
- c. 1552 BCE, Kamose, Carnarvon Tablet I (Cairo JE 41790):
  
  jb.j r nḥm kmt ḥ(w)t ꜥꜣmw
  My intention is to save Egypt and smite the Asiatics.
appetite, will or desire for gratification
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.8–1.9:
  
  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:
  
  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]
emotional state

Inflection

Declension of jb (masculine)

singular	jb
dual	jbwj
plural	jbw

Synonyms

(heart, mind): ḥꜣtj

Derived terms

ꜣwj-jb
ꜣwt-jb
ꜣms-jb
ꜣḫ jb
ꜣḫ m jb
ꜣs jb
ꜣd jb r
jmj jb
ꜥwn-jb
ꜥm jb
ꜥḏ-jb
wꜣḥ jb
wbꜣ jb
wnf jb
wḏꜣ jb
n jb n
nfr jb
r-jb
rqj jb
rḏj jb m sꜣ (“be concerned about”)
rḏj jb ḫnt (“focus on”)
rḏj m jb (“work out”)
ḥrj jb
ḥr jb
ẖꜣk-jb
swḏꜣ jb
st-jb
stẖ-pr-jb.sn
kfꜣ-jb

Verb

2-lit.

(intransitive) to wish, to intend (+ r: to wish to, to intend to)
(transitive) to think, to suppose
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 57–59:
  
  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	aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jb.n	jbw, jb	consecutive	jb.jn	active + .tj¹, .tw²
perfect	jb.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²
terminative	jbt
perfective³	jb	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	jb.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
imperfective	jb, j.jb¹	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	jb.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	jb	jbb	potentialis¹	jb.kꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	jb	active + .tj¹, .tw²
subjunctive	jb, j.jb¹	active + .tj¹, .tw²

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jb.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	jb	active + .tj¹, .tw²	jb	jbb, jbbj⁶, jb², jbw^{2 5}, jby^{2 5}
imperfective	j.jb¹, jb, jby, jbw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	j.jb¹, j.jbw^{1 5}, jb, jbj⁶, jby⁶	jb, jbw⁵
prospective	jb, jbtj⁷	—	jbtj⁴, jbt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jb

jb

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ib/
- Conventional anglicization: ib

Noun

m

thirsty man

Inflection

Declension of jb (masculine)

singular	jb
dual	jbwj
plural	jbw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jb

jb

References

Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 59.10–60.13, 61.11, 61.15
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 166, 388, 456 page 81, 166, 388, 456.

Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
Helck, Wolfgang (1972) Der Text des “Nilhymnus”, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, Page 65
The Hymn to the Nile flood at Digital Egypt for Universities
The beginning of this passage, encompassing the glyphs

, 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

). 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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[Loprieno-1] Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31

[Helck-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

, 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

). 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…’.