ꜥb

Egyptian

Possibly related to Arabic عَابَ (ʕāba, “to shame, to disgrace”).

2-lit.

Conjugation of ꜥb (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ꜥb, geminated stem: ꜥbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜥb	ꜥbw, ꜥb	ꜥbt	ꜥb, j.ꜥb	ꜥb, j.ꜥb

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ꜥb	ḥr ꜥb	m ꜥb	r ꜥb

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜥb.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ꜥb	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜥb	ꜥbb, ꜥbbj⁶, ꜥb², ꜥbw^{2 5}, ꜥby^{2 5}
imperfective	j.ꜥb¹, ꜥb, ꜥby, ꜥbw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	j.ꜥb¹, j.ꜥbw^{1 5}, ꜥb, ꜥbj⁶, ꜥby⁶	ꜥb, ꜥbw⁵
prospective	ꜥb, ꜥbtj⁷	—	ꜥbtj⁴, ꜥbt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

m

Declension of ꜥb (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥb

ꜥb

m

Declension of ꜥb (masculine)

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 150, 335, 457.
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 176.1

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