hb

See also: HB, Hb., ḥb, ḫb, and Hb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun
hbhb

 m

  1. plough [since the Old Kingdom]
    • Early 6th Dynasty, Tomb of Nyankhnesut, Relief of Agricultural Scenes (Cleveland 1930.736), upper register, caption above plowman:[1]
      skAhbwAHhbhb
      skꜣ wꜣḥ hb
      Plowing. “Press the plow!”

Inflection
Declension of hb (masculine)
singular hb
dual hbwj
plural hbw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hb  
hb
hAbWhbxt
Z2
hAR7hb
h
R7		 Ahb
hb hꜣbw hꜣbꜣ hbꜣ
[Middle Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
abbreviation in hieratic

Descendants
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲉⲃⲓ (hebi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲃ̄ⲃⲉ (hb̄be)

References
  • “hb (lemma ID 98010)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 485.10–485.11
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 158
  1. Berman, Lawrence M., Bohač, Kenneth J. (1999) The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Egyptian Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press, pages 137–138

Spanish

Noun

hb f (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of hora boliviana.

Swedish

Noun

hb c

  1. Alternative letter-case form of HB (“moonshine”)
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