ḥbs

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See also: HBs and ḫbs

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 
  • (verb): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈħaːbas/ → /ˈħaːbas/ → /ˈħaːbəs/ → /ˈħoːβəs/
 

Verb

HbsS28

 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

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥbs (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥbs, geminated stem: ḥbss
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥbs
 ḥbsw, ḥbs
 ḥbst
 ḥbs
 ḥbs
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥbs
 ḥr ḥbs
 m ḥbs
 r ḥbs
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḥbs.n
 ḥbsw, ḥbs
 consecutive ḥbs.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḥbst
perfective3 ḥbs
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 ḥbs.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḥbs
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḥbs
 ḥbss
 potentialis1 ḥbs.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḥbs
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḥbs.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ḥbs
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥbs
 ḥbs, ḥbsw5, ḥbsy5
imperfective ḥbs, ḥbsy, ḥbsw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥbs, ḥbsj6, ḥbsy6
 ḥbs, ḥbsw5
prospective ḥbs, ḥbstj7
 — ḥbstj4, ḥbst4
  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 ḥbs  
HbS28
Hbz
S28
HbsS28D40
Hbz
S28		 D40
HbsV6A24
HbsV6
ḥbs ḥbs ḥbs ḥbs ḥbs ḥbs
in hieratic in hieratic
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥbs  
S28
S28D40
H_SPACE
V6		 S28
V6
ḥbs ḥbs ḥbs ḥbs
abbreviation abbreviation abbreviation abbreviation

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

HbsS28

 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.

Inflection

Declension of ḥbs (masculine)
singular ḥbs
dual ḥbswj
plural ḥbsw

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “ḥbs (lemma ID 103740)”, 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
  • “ḥbs (lemma ID 103750)”, 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 (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.
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