ḥꜥb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɑːb/
  • Conventional anglicization: hab

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to play (a game) [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥꜥb (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥꜥb, geminated stem: ḥꜥbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḥꜥb	ḥꜥbw, ḥꜥb	ḥꜥbt	ḥꜥb	ḥꜥb

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ḥꜥb	ḥr ḥꜥb	m ḥꜥb	r ḥꜥb

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḥꜥb.n	ḥꜥbw, ḥꜥb	consecutive	ḥꜥb.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḥꜥbt
perfective3	ḥꜥb	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḥꜥb.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḥꜥb	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḥꜥb	ḥꜥbb	potentialis1	ḥꜥb.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḥꜥb	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḥꜥb.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḥꜥb	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥꜥb	ḥꜥb, ḥꜥbw5, ḥꜥby5
imperfective	ḥꜥb, ḥꜥby, ḥꜥbw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥꜥb, ḥꜥbj6, ḥꜥby6	ḥꜥb, ḥꜥbw5
prospective	ḥꜥb, ḥꜥbtj7	—	ḥꜥbtj4, ḥꜥbt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜥb  

ḥꜥb

[Old Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 42.6–42.8