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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to shine
- (intransitive, of the sun or inundation) to rise
c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE,
Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 12–13:
- ḫꜥ ḥr nst nt (j)t.f mj rꜥ wbn.f m ꜣḫt rdj.f šsp n ḥr(j) kkw sḥḏ.n.f šw m šwtj.fj bꜥḥ.n.f tꜣwj mj jṯn m tp-dwꜣyt
- One shining forth on the throne of his father like Ra when he rises in the Akhet, he gave light to what was covered by darkness, having brightened the air with his two plumes, having flooded the Two Lands (Egypt) like the sun disk at the break of dawn.
Inflection
Conjugation of wbn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wbn, geminated stem: wbnn
| 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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wbn
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wbnw, wbn
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wbnt
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wbn
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wbn
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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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wbn
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ḥr wbn
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m wbn
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r wbn
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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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wbn.n
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consecutive
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wbn.jn
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| terminative
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wbnt
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| perfective3
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wbn
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obligative1
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wbn.ḫr
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| imperfective
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wbn
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| prospective3
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wbn
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potentialis1
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wbn.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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wbn
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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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wbn.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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wbn
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wbn
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wbn, wbnw5, wbny5
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| imperfective
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wbn, wbny, wbnw5
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wbn, wbnj6, wbny6
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wbn, wbnw5
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| prospective
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wbn, wbntj7
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wbntj4, wbnt4
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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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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wbn
Derived terms
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 254.
