ẖkr

See also: hkr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛkɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: kheker

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) adorned or decorated

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ẖkr	ẖkrw, ẖkr	ẖkrt	ẖkr	ẖkr

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ẖkr.n	—	—
perfective	ẖkr	ẖkr	ẖkr, ẖkrw5, ẖkry5
imperfective	ẖkr, ẖkry, ẖkrw5	ẖkr, ẖkrj6, ẖkry6	ẖkr, ẖkrw5
prospective	ẖkr, ẖkrtj7	ẖkrtj4, ẖkrt4
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 ẖkr  

škr	ẖkr
[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ẖkr
• sẖkr
• ẖkrw

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⳉⲱⲕ (xōk)
• Bohairic Coptic: ϧⲱⲕ (xōk)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲱⲱⲕ (hōōk), ϩⲱⲕ (hōk)

Noun

 m

1. adornment, decoration

Inflection

Declension of ẖkr (masculine)

singular	ẖkr
dual	ẖkrwj
plural	ẖkrw

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 401.2–401.5, 401.15–402.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 205