bḥnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 4ae inf.

  1. (transitive) to cut apart, to dismember (evil ones) (+ m: with (a knife))
  2. (transitive) to cut off, to sever (limbs, heads, ears, etc.) [Book of the Dead and Late Period]
  3. (transitive) to punish (evil ones) generally [since the Pyramid Texts]
  4. (transitive) to drive off or otherwise subdue (enemies) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  5. (transitive) to remove, to dispose of (a quarrel) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]
  6. (transitive) to eliminate (lies) [Greco-Roman Period]
  7. (transitive) to render (poison) harmless [Late Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of bḥnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bḥn, geminated stem: bḥnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
bḥn
 bḥnw, bḥnyw, bḥn
 bḥnt, bḥnwt, bḥnyt
 bḥn
 bḥn, bḥny
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
bḥn8
 ḥr bḥn
 m bḥn
 r bḥn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect bḥn.n
 bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny
 consecutive bḥn.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative bḥnt
perfective3 bḥn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 bḥn.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective bḥn, bḥny
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny
 bḥnn
 potentialis1 bḥn.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive bḥn, bḥny
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect bḥn.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 bḥn
 bḥny, bḥn
imperfective bḥnn, bḥnny, bḥnnw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 bḥnn, bḥnnj6, bḥnny6
 bḥnn, bḥnnw5
prospective bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn, bḥntj7
 — bḥnwtj1 4, bḥntj4, bḥnt4

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.
8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥnj  






bḥnj bḥnj bḥnj bḥnj bḥnj bḥnj bḥnwj
[Pyramid Texts] [since the Pyramid Texts] [New Kingdom] [Book of the Dead] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

References

  • “bḥni̯ (lemma ID 56830)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], 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[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.9–468.17
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83
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