n jb n

Egyptian

Etymology

From n (“for”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”) +‎ n(j) (“of”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛn ib ɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: en ib en

Preposition

1. for the sake of (someone)
2. so as to, in order to (do something)
3. so that, in order that (something happens)

References

• “n-jb-n (lemma ID 79060)”, 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 60.4–60.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 15