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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2-lit.
- (intransitive, Late Egyptian) to be(come) obligated to perform corvee labor
Inflection
Conjugation of bḥ (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: bḥ, geminated stem: bḥḥ
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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bḥ
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bḥw, bḥ
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bḥt
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bḥ, j.bḥ
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bḥ, j.bḥ
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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bḥ
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ḥr bḥ
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m bḥ
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r bḥ
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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| perfect
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bḥ.n
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consecutive
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bḥ.jn
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| terminative
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bḥt
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| perfective3
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bḥ
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obligative1
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bḥ.ḫr
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| imperfective
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bḥ, j.bḥ1
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| prospective3
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bḥ
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potentialis1
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bḥ.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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bḥ, j.bḥ1
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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bḥ.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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bḥ
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bḥ
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bḥḥ, bḥḥj6, bḥ2, bḥw2 5, bḥy2 5
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| imperfective
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j.bḥ1, bḥ, bḥy, bḥw5
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j.bḥ1, j.bḥw1 5, bḥ, bḥj6, bḥy6
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bḥ, bḥw5
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| prospective
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bḥ, bḥtj7
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bḥtj4, bḥt4
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- 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, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
- Only in the masculine singular.
- Only in the masculine.
- Only in the feminine.
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Derived terms
Noun
?
- (Late Egyptian) an agent for tanning leather
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥ
Noun
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- a kind of plant
References
- “bḥ (lemma ID 56800)”, “bḥ (lemma ID 56780)”, and “bḥ (lemma ID 56790)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.5–468.7
