jꜣbtjw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑbtiuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iabtiu

Etymology 1

jꜣbtj (“eastern”) +‎ -w (plural suffix).

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) easterners

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣbtjw  

jꜣbtjw	jꜣbtjw	jꜣbtjw
[Old Kingdom]

Etymology 2

Ultimately from jꜣbt (“east”).

Noun

 m

1. east side, the east of a place [Middle and New Kingdom]
   • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 14–15:

     swꜣ.n.j ḥr jꜣbtjw jkw [m ḥryt] nb[t]-ḏw-(d)š(r)

     I passed by the east side of the Tura quarry [above] the Lad[y] of the Red Mountain.

   • c. 1800 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version R (pRamesseum A/pBerlin 10499, Verso) lines 39–41:

     swꜣ.n.j ḥr jꜣbtjw jkw m ḥryt [nb]t-ḏw-dšr

     I passed by the east side of the Tura quarry above the [Lad]y of the Red Mountain.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣbtjw  

jꜣbtjw	jꜣbtjw	jꜣbtj
		[New Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 31.4, 31.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 8