ḥbs

Compare Arabic حَبَّسَ (ḥabbasa), Hebrew חָבַשׁ (ḥāḇáš).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛbɛs/
  • Conventional anglicization: hebes

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to clothe (a person or body part) (+ m: in, with (a garment))
2. (intransitive) to be(come) clothed (+ m: in, with (a garment))
3. (transitive, uncommon) to don, to put on (a garment)
4. (transitive) to hide, to cover up (a body part)
5. (transitive) to cover up (an object) with cloth, to cover or wrap (+ m: in, with (a cloth))
6. (transitive) to cover over, to cover (a place) (+ m: in, with (a substance: sand, rocks, floodwater, etc.; also, a crowd of people))
7. (transitive, of the sky) to cover (the earth)
8. (transitive) to expand (a construction such as a temple or city) with further surrounding constructions (+ m: with (an annex, a defensive wall, etc.))
9. (transitive) to furnish (a house)
10. (transitive, of the king) to shield, to protect (Egypt)
11. (transitive, with m) to bathe (something) in (light)
12. (transitive) to keep (names, deeds, documents, etc.) secret

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥbs  

ḥbs	ḥbs	ḥbs	ḥbs	ḥbs	ḥbs
				in hieratic	in hieratic

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥbs  

ḥbs	ḥbs	ḥbs	ḥbs
abbreviation	abbreviation	abbreviation	abbreviation

• Demotic: ḥbs
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ϩⲱⲃⲥ (hōbs)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲱⲃⲥ (hōbs), ϩⲱⲡⲥ (hōps)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲱⲃⲥ (hōbs), ϩⲱϥⲉⲥ (hōfes)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ϩⲱⲃⲥ (hōbs)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲱⲃⲥ (hōbs)

 m

1. garment, piece of clothing
2. (of the dead) mummy wrappings
3. (Late Egyptian) horsecloth, caparison
4. (Late Egyptian) covering for a chariot
5. straining cloth, cloth through which a substance is strained, pressed, or sieved
6. bandage, cloth used for bandaging
7. cloth as a material, as used for wicks, sails, tents, bandages, etc.

See under the verb above.

• Demotic: ḥbs
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ϩⲃⲟⲟⲥ (hboos)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϩⲃⲟⲥ (hbos), ϩⲃⲱⲥ (hbōs)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲃⲁⲥ (hbas)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ϩⲃⲟⲟⲥ (hboos), ϩⲃⲁⲥ (hbas)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲃⲟⲟⲥ (hboos), ϩⲃⲟⲥ (hbos), ϩⲃⲱⲥ (hbōs)

• “ḥbs (lemma ID 103740)” and “ḥbs (lemma ID 103750)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 64.3–66.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 167
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 198.