jwꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun
iwAAE1

 m

  1. ox, especially as a sacrificial animal
  2. (in the plural) long-horned cattle in contrast to wnḏw (“short-horned cattle”)
  3. (with following genitive of an antelope, gazelle, ibex, etc.) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. male animal

Inflection
Declension of jwꜣ (masculine)
singular jwꜣ
dual jwꜣwj
plural jwꜣw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜣ  
iwAE1
iwA
iw
E100
jwꜣ jwꜣ jw
[Greco-Roman Period]

Noun
iwAAF51

 m

  1. beef

Inflection
Declension of jwꜣ (masculine)
singular jwꜣ
dual jwꜣwj
plural jwꜣw

References
  • “jwꜣ (lemma ID 22160)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 49.9–49.11
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 12
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 111.
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