ꜣpd

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Egyptian

Other romanization schemes
Manuel de Codage Apd
Gardiner 1927 ꜣpd
Erman & Grapow 1926 ꜣpd
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete) apeṭ

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈʀaːpVtʼ/ → /ˈʀaːpVtʼ/ → /ˈʔaːpətʼ/ → /ˈʔoːpətʼ/

Noun

Ap
d		 G38

 m

  1. a bird in general
    • Tomb of Senbi, Rock Tombs at Meir:[1]
      amaAT14r
      G38      		 Z3
      ꜥmꜥꜣ r ꜣpdw
      Throwing at the birds.
  2. small waterfowl, perhaps particularly a duck

Usage notes

Note that the bird hieroglyph is G38
G38
, not the nearly identical G39
G39
.

As a word for birds in general, ꜣpd is found contrasted against words for fish, beetles, etc. In Late Egyptian the word is commonly used in similes for helplessness, wherein people are likened to captured or bound birds.[2]

Inflection

Declension of ꜣpd (masculine)
singular ꜣpd
dual ꜣpdwj
plural ꜣpdw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣpd  
G38
H1
ip
d		 G38
ꜣpd ꜣpd jpd
abbreviation abbreviation in the
offering formula 		sporadic

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: jpt

See also

Proper noun

Ap
d		 G41N14

 m

  1. (astronomy) a constellation, literally ‘the Bird’, corresponding to modern Triangulum and Perseus

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣpd  
Ap
d
G306
ꜣpd
from Thebes, Bab el Meluk, Tomb IX,
ceiling inscriptions, southern section[4]

Verb

Ap
d		 D54

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to come hastening, to rush onward (+ r: to, towards)
  2. (intransitive, of the heart) to beat more quickly out of love

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣpd (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣpd, geminated stem: ꜣpdd
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜣpd
 ꜣpdw, ꜣpd
 ꜣpdt
 ꜣpd
 ꜣpd
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜣpd
 ḥr ꜣpd
 m ꜣpd
 r ꜣpd
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜣpd.n
 consecutive ꜣpd.jn
terminative ꜣpdt
perfective3 ꜣpd
 obligative1 ꜣpd.ḫr
imperfective ꜣpd
prospective3 ꜣpd
 potentialis1 ꜣpd.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜣpd
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜣpd.n
 — —
perfective ꜣpd
 ꜣpd
 ꜣpd, ꜣpdw5, ꜣpdy5
imperfective ꜣpd, ꜣpdy, ꜣpdw5
 ꜣpd, ꜣpdj6, ꜣpdy6
 ꜣpd, ꜣpdw5
prospective ꜣpd, ꜣpdtj7
 ꜣpdtj4, ꜣpdt4
  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 ꜣpd  
Ap
d		 G41D54
Ap
t		 G38D54
ꜣpd ꜣpt
in hieratic

Verb

Ap
d		 G38

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive, hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. to copulate with
    2. to hasten to, to rush to
    • 305 BCE, The Songs of Isis and Nephthys (pBremner-Rhind, British Museum EA10188,2), 5.22–5.27:[5][6]
      mHr
      r      		 WN31
      D54      		 rpr Z1
      k      		 straG7]]

      G41AE1D52
      E1      		 wr
      r      		 nb
      t      		 nDmmnDmmD53Ap
      d      		 G38
      k      		 T23iB1
      k      		 stt
      H8      		 G7

      x
      r      		 sskA24
      k      		 F29t
      y      		 Aa2
      Z2ss      		 ir
      y      		 A48Ha
      Z1 F51      		 Z2
      z      		 ]]Hp
      t      		 D32sW
      t      		 D35
      n      		 Hr
      r      		 N31
      D54
      k      		 r
      z
      m ḥrw r pr.k wsjr pꜣ kꜣ-wr nbt-nḏmnḏm ꜣpd.k snj.k ꜣst ḫrs.k stwtj jrj ḥpt.s tw nn ḥr.k r.s
      Don’t go far from your house, Osiris. O Great Bull, Lord of Sexual Pleasure! Hurry to?/Copulate with? your sister Isis, drive out the pain-substance attached to : she will embrace you, you won’t draw away from her.

Usage notes

Perhaps identical with the above intransitive verb ‘to rush onward’, with an omission of the following preposition r.

Noun

Ap
d		 ]]

 m

  1. Alternative form of jpdw (“furniture”)

References

  1. ^ A. M. Blackman, The Rock Tombs of Meir, Vol. 1, pl. 2
  2. ^ Grapow, Hermann (1924) Die bildlichen Ausdrücke des Aegyptischen: vom Denken und Dichten einer altorientalischen Sprache, page 91
  3. ^ Blasco Torres, Ana Isabel (2017) Representing Foreign Sounds: Greek Transcriptions of Egyptian Anthroponyms from 800 BC to 800 AD, Leuven, Salamanca, page 665
  4. ^ Lepsius, Karl Richard (1849–1859) Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, Tafelwerke, Abtheilung III, Band VII, plate 227
  5. ^ Faulkner, Raymond O. (1933) The Papyrus Bremner-Rhind (British Museum No. 10188), page 10
  6. ^ Faulkner, Raymond O. (1936) “The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus-I” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 22, pages 125, 136
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