ḫfꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛfɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: khefa

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to nourish oneself, to feed (+ m: on, from) [Theban royal tombs]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḫfꜣ	ḫfꜣw, ḫfꜣ	ḫfꜣt	ḫfꜣ	ḫfꜣ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ḫfꜣ.n	consecutive	ḫfꜣ.jn
terminative	ḫfꜣt
perfective3	ḫfꜣ	obligative1	ḫfꜣ.ḫr
imperfective	ḫfꜣ
prospective3	ḫfꜣ	potentialis1	ḫfꜣ.kꜣ
subjunctive	ḫfꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ḫfꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	ḫfꜣ	ḫfꜣ	ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣw5, ḫfꜣy5
imperfective	ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣy, ḫfꜣw5	ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣj6, ḫfꜣy6	ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣw5
prospective	ḫfꜣ, ḫfꜣtj7	ḫfꜣtj4, ḫfꜣt4
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 ḫfꜣ  

ḫꜣf	ḫꜣ
	[sic], from the tomb of Seti I

Derived terms

• ḫfꜣt

References

• “ḫfꜣ (lemma ID 854806)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 230.14
• Hornung, Erik (1979) Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits: Nach den Versionen des Neuen Reiches, volume 1: Text, page 17
• Hornung, Erik (1984) Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits: Nach den Versionen des Neuen Reiches, volume 2: Übersetzung und Kommentar, page 47 and page 48, note 4