kfj

Egyptian

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3ae inf.

(transitive) to remove clothing or bandages from (a part of the body); to bare, to expose, to uncover [since the Pyramid Texts]
(transitive) to reveal, to disclose (something hidden) in general [since the Pyramid Texts]
(transitive) to clear (the sky) of clouds [since the First Intermediate Period]
(transitive) to take off or remove (a piece of clothing)
(transitive, rare) to strip, to plunder, to despoil [Middle Kingdom]
(transitive) to open [Greco-Roman Period]
Synonyms: wbꜣ, wpj, wn, zn, swn

Conjugation of kfj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: kf, geminated stem: kff

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
kft, kfj	kfw, kf	kft, kfwt, kfyt	kf	kf, kfy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
kf⁸, kff⁸	ḥr kft, ḥr kfj	m kft, m kfj	r kft, r kfj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	kf.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	kfw¹, kfy, kf	active + .tj¹, .tw²	kf	kfy, kf
imperfective	kff, kffy, kffw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	kff, kffj⁶, kffy⁶	kff, kffw⁵
prospective	kfw¹, kfy, kf, kftj⁷	—	kfwtj^{1 4}, kftj⁴, kft⁴
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kfj

kfꜣ

[since the 18th Dynasty]

Since the 18th Dynasty this word is generally written kfꜣ.

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 119.4–119.19, 120.2–120.3, 121.1, 121
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285

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