r-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

r (“mouth”) +‎ jb (“heart”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the mouth of the heart’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

m

stomach

Inflection

Declension of r-jb (masculine)

singular	r-jb
dual	rwj-jb
plural	rw-jb

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 184.

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