sqbḥ
Egyptian
Etymology
s- (causative prefix) + qbḥ (“to libate, to purify, to be cool”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛkɛbɛħ/
- Conventional anglicization: seqebeh
Verb
caus. 3-lit.
- (transitive) to refresh (the heart or the dead) (+ m: with (water or offerings)) [Pyramid Texts and Middle Kingdom]
- (intransitive) to give ease (+ n: to)
Inflection
Conjugation of sqbḥ (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sqbḥ
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
sqbḥ | sqbḥw, sqbḥ | sqbḥt | sqbḥ | sqbḥ |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
sqbḥ | ḥr sqbḥ | m sqbḥ | r sqbḥ |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | sqbḥ.n | sqbḥw, sqbḥ | consecutive | sqbḥ.jn | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | sqbḥt | ||||
perfective3 | sqbḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | obligative | sqbḥ.ḫr | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | sqbḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | sqbḥw, sqbḥ, sqbḥy | sqbḥw, sqbḥ, sqbḥy | potentialis | sqbḥ.kꜣ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | sqbḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | sqbḥ.n | active + .tj1, .tw2 | — | — |
perfective | sqbḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | sqbḥ | sqbḥ, sqbḥw5, sqbḥy5 |
imperfective | sqbḥ, sqbḥy, sqbḥw5 | active + .tj1, .tw2 | sqbḥ, sqbḥj6, sqbḥy6 | sqbḥ, sqbḥw5 |
prospective | sqbḥ, sqbḥtj7 | — | sqbḥwtj1 4, sqbḥtj4, sqbḥt4 | |
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sqbḥ
sqbḥ | sqbḥ | sqbḥ | ||||||||||||
[Pyramid Texts] | [Pyramid Texts] | [Middle Kingdom] |
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 305.14–305.15
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 250