sꜥb

Egyptian

3-lit.

(transitive) to saw out, circumcise, castrate
- The funerary stela of Uha
  
  jw sꜥb.kw ḥnꜥ 120 z(w) nn z ḫꜣꜥ jm nn z ḫꜣꜥw jm nn ꜣẖꜥ jm nn ꜣẖꜥw jm
  When I was circumcised, along with 120 men, none therin struck, none therein were struck, none therein scratched, none therein were scratched.

Conjugation of sꜥb (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sꜥb, geminated stem: sꜥbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sꜥb	sꜥbw, sꜥb	sꜥbt	sꜥb	sꜥb

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sꜥb.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sꜥb	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sꜥb	sꜥb, sꜥbw⁵, sꜥby⁵
imperfective	sꜥb, sꜥby, sꜥbw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sꜥb, sꜥbj⁶, sꜥby⁶	sꜥb, sꜥbw⁵
prospective	sꜥb, sꜥbtj⁷	—	sꜥbtj⁴, sꜥbt⁴
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.

In the sense of ‘circumcise’:

Dickson, Paul (2006) Dictionary of Middle Egyptian in Gardiner Classification Order‎

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