rḏj jb m sꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

From rḏj (“to give, to set”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”) +‎ m sꜣ (“behind, after”), literally “to set one’s heart/mind behind”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛd͡ʒi ib ɛm sɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: redji ib em sa

Verb

 compound

1. to trouble oneself with, to make an effort over, to take care about or be anxious about (doing something)
2. to trouble oneself over, to take care about or be anxious about (someone)

References

• Uses of this term can be found subsumed under “rḏi̯ (jb) (lemma ID 96730)”, 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, page 60.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 15, 155