ꜥꜣb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
aA
a		 AbM19Y1V

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive, of things) to be(come) pleasing or desirable [Middle Kingdom literature]
  2. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) pleasant, agreeable [Pyramid Texts to 18th Dynasty]
  3. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) self-pleasing, selfish [Middle Kingdom literature]

Inflection
Conjugation of ꜥꜣb (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜥꜣb, geminated stem: ꜥꜣbb
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣbw, ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣbt
 ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣb
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜥꜣb
 ḥr ꜥꜣb
 m ꜥꜣb
 r ꜥꜣb
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜥꜣb.n
 consecutive ꜥꜣb.jn
terminative ꜥꜣbt
perfective3 ꜥꜣb
 obligative1 ꜥꜣb.ḫr
imperfective ꜥꜣb
prospective3 ꜥꜣb
 potentialis1 ꜥꜣb.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜥꜣb
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜥꜣb.n
 — —
perfective ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5, ꜥꜣby5
imperfective ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣby, ꜥꜣbw5
 ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbj6, ꜥꜣby6
 ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5
prospective ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbtj7
 ꜥꜣbtj4, ꜥꜣbt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣb  
aAbM19M1
aA
a		 AbM43Y1
aA
a		 bM19
ꜥꜣb ꜥꜣb ꜥꜣb
[Pyramid Texts] [Middle Kingdom] [18th Dynasty]
interpretation disputed;
see the noun below

Derived terms

Verb
abM19

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to make an offering (+ n: to (someone)) [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection
Conjugation of ꜥꜣb (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜥꜣb, geminated stem: ꜥꜣbb
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣbw, ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣbt
 ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣb
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜥꜣb
 ḥr ꜥꜣb
 m ꜥꜣb
 r ꜥꜣb
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜥꜣb.n
 consecutive ꜥꜣb.jn
terminative ꜥꜣbt
perfective3 ꜥꜣb
 obligative1 ꜥꜣb.ḫr
imperfective ꜥꜣb
prospective3 ꜥꜣb
 potentialis1 ꜥꜣb.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜥꜣb
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜥꜣb.n
 — —
perfective ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣb
 ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5, ꜥꜣby5
imperfective ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣby, ꜥꜣbw5
 ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbj6, ꜥꜣby6
 ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbw5
prospective ꜥꜣb, ꜥꜣbtj7
 ꜥꜣbtj4, ꜥꜣbt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣb  
M19
ꜥꜣb

Derived terms

Noun
aAbM19M1

 m

  1. a kind of tree [Pyramid Texts and 18th Dynasty]

Usage notes

Some uses of this word admit of multiple possible interpretations, with some authors taking them instead as uses of the verb ‘to be(come) pleasant’ above; Faulkner reads them this way in the occurrences found in the Pyramid Texts.

Inflection
Declension of ꜥꜣb (masculine)
singular ꜥꜣb
dual ꜥꜣbwj
plural ꜥꜣbw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣb  
aA
a		 AbwHn
ꜥꜣbw
[18th Dynasty]

References
  • “ꜥꜣb (lemma ID 35310)”, 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
  • “ꜥꜣb (lemma ID 35320)”, 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
  • “ꜥꜣb (lemma ID 35300)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 167.6–167.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38
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