Translingual
Symbol
jbr
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Jofotek-Bromnya.
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Jofotek-Bromnya terms
Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- a kind of valuable oil or unguent, applied to the body and hair, used in temple cults, and also used medicinally; further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
- labdanum
- ― jbr mꜣꜥ ― true labdanum
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 140–142:
- dj.j jn.t(w) n.k jbj ḥknw jwdnb ẖsꜣyt sntr n(j) gsw prw sḥtpw nṯr nb jm.f
- I will have them bring you labdanum, ḥknw-oil, jwdnb-incense, cassia, and the incense of the temple storerooms, with which every god is made content.
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References
- “jbr (lemma ID 23780)”, 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 63.10–63.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 15
- ^ From the Shipwrecked Sailor, line 140 (see quotation above); the reading of the last glyphs is uncertain: Allen reads , while Faulkner reads and the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae reads but frames it in question marks.