jꜣkb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 4-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to mourn
  2. (intransitive) to wail, to lament (+ n or ḥr: over, because of)

Inflection

Conjugation of jꜣkb (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: jꜣkb
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
jꜣkb
jꜣkbw, jꜣkb
jꜣkbt
jꜣkb
jꜣkb
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
jꜣkb
ḥr jꜣkb
m jꜣkb
r jꜣkb
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect jꜣkb.n
consecutive jꜣkb.jn
terminative jꜣkbt
perfective3 jꜣkb
obligative1 jꜣkb.ḫr
imperfective jꜣkb
prospective3 jꜣkbw, jꜣkb
potentialis1 jꜣkb.kꜣ
subjunctive jꜣkb
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect jꜣkb.n
perfective jꜣkb
jꜣkb
jꜣkb, jꜣkbw5, jꜣkby5
imperfective jꜣkb, jꜣkby, jꜣkbw5
jꜣkb, jꜣkbj6, jꜣkby6
jꜣkb, jꜣkbw5
prospective jꜣkb, jꜣkbtj7
jꜣkbwtj1 4, jꜣkbtj4, jꜣkbt4

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲱⲕⲙⲉ (ōkme)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲱⲕⲉⲙ (ōkem)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲱⲕⲙ̄ (ōkm̄)

Noun

 m

  1. mourning
  2. lament, wail

Inflection

Declension of jꜣkb (masculine)
singular jꜣkb
dual jꜣkbwj
plural jꜣkbw

Alternative forms

References

  • jꜣkb (lemma ID 21010)” and “jꜣkb (lemma ID 21020)”, 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 34.5–34.12
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166.