jꜥb

Egyptian

3-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
jꜥb	jꜥbw, jꜥb	jꜥbt	jꜥb	jꜥb

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jꜥb.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	jꜥb	active + .tj¹, .tw²	jꜥb	jꜥb, jꜥbw⁵, jꜥby⁵
imperfective	jꜥb, jꜥby, jꜥbw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	jꜥb, jꜥbj⁶, jꜥby⁶	jꜥb, jꜥbw⁵
prospective	jꜥb, jꜥbtj⁷	—	jꜥbtj⁴, jꜥbt⁴
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

m

bowl, especially a small bowl used for incense (attached to a censer’s handle) or a scribe’s bowl for water

Declension of jꜥb (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥb

ꜥꜥb

ꜣꜥꜥbw

[New Kingdom]

[19th–20th Dynasty]

in papyri

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 455.
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 40.9–40.11