nfr-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

nfr (“good”) +‎ jb (“heart”) in a direct genitive construction with the first element nominalized, thus literally ‘goodness of heart’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfɛr ib/
- Conventional anglicization: nefer-ib

Noun

m

relaxation, recreation

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 233.

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