jbr

Egyptian

Etymology

Borrowing from a Semitic language. Compare Biblical Hebrew אַבִּיר (ʾabbī́r, “mighty, valiant”) (often used of stallions), or perhaps Ugaritic 𐎛𐎁𐎗 (ỉbr, “bull”) (= Arabic بَعِير (baʕīr)).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: iber

Noun

 m

1. stallion [since the 18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of jbr (masculine)

singular	jbr
dual	jbrwj
plural	jbrw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbr  

jbꜣr	jbꜣjry
	[New Kingdom]
	in hieratic

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 63.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 16
• Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 18–19